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MANCUNIENSIS; 



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AN HISTORY 



Notour of i&aucttfster, 



AND WHAT 13 




(OST MEMORABLE CONCERNING IT. 



BY R. HOLLINGWORTH. 



MANCHESTER : 
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PUBLISHED .BY WILLIAM WILLIS, HANGING-DITCH; 

AND SOLD BY JOSEPH LILLY, AND 

EDWARD LLMLEY, LONDON. 



MDCCCXXXIX. 



WOSTHAM, PRINTER, MANCHESTER. 



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FENTON ROBINSON ATKINSON, 

OF OAK HOUSE, ESQ., PENDLETON, 
THIS EDITION OF 

&ollingtoortfr* €%xQxiiclt& of ffimtty&ttv, 

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED; 

AS A SMALL TOKEN OF THE HIGH ESTEEM BORNE FOR HIS 

PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, 

AND REGARD FOR THE RIGHT OF THE COMMON PEOPLE TO 

ELECT THEIR OWN GOVERNORS, 

WHICH, WHILST IT REMAINED IN FORCE, 

MADE THIS COUNTRY 

AT ONCE THE FREEST AND HAPPIEST IN THE WORLD : 

AND, ALSO, AS A TESTIMONY OF VENERATION 

FOR HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES ; 

BY HIS HUMBLE AND OBLIGED SERVANT, 

WILLIAM WILLIS, 

Manchester, November 1839. 



DESCRIPTION 



ENGRAVED TITLE PAGE. 



The Arms in the four corners of the engraved 
title, are those of the successive Lords of Man- 
chester, viz., DE GRELLE, 1st. Baron, in jure 
uxoris; Temp. K. 

Gules, three Bendlets enhanced Or. 
DE LA WARRE, 7th Baron, in jure uxoris, 
Gules, crusuly bottony Jitchee, a Lion Rampant 
Argent. 
DE WEST, 12th Baron, injure uxoris, 
Argent, a /esse Dancette Sable. 
(The Manor was held about seventeen years by- 
John Lacy, by purchase.) 
MOSLEY, Lord of Manchester, by purchase, 
Quarterly, 1st. and 4th. Sable a Cheveron between three 
Mill-picks (or Hammers) Argent; 2nd. and 3rd. 
Or, a f esse between three Eagles displayed Sable. 
The Arms in the centre, on the Sinister, are those 

of Humphrey Chetham, viz. 
Quarterly 1st. Argent, a Griffin Segreant Gules, 
within a Bordure, Sable Bezantee, being the 
Arms of T raff or d of Chadderton ; 2d. Argent, 



6 DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGRAVED TITLE PAGE. 

a Cheveron Gules between three Fleams Sable, 

for Chetham; 3rd. Gules, a Cross-potent crossed 

Or, for Chadderton ; 4th. as the first. A 

Crescent for difference. 

On the dexter the Arms of CHRIST'S COLLEGE, 

viz. Azure, a book expanded pp, on the leaves 

of which are these words : <( Lucerna pedibus 

meis, verbum tuum et Lumen, semitis meis. 

Ps. cxix. ;" in chief a Candlestick or with a 

Candle enflamed pp. the whole encircled 

with this inscription, " SIGILLUM COL- 

LEGIJ CHRIST! IN MANCHESTER 

A REGE CAROLO 1635 FUNDATI." 

In the centre between West's and Mosley's, 

are the Arms of RANULPH DE BLUNDE- 

VILLE, Earl of Chester, who in the reign of 

King Henry III. granted a Charter constituting 

Salford a free borough, viz. 

Azure, three Garbs Or. 
These Arms have been taken within the last 
few years. The same are now used as the seal of 
the Borough, round which is inscribed, "SIGIL- 
LUM COMMUNE BURGI DE SALFORD, 
MDCCCXXX." 



PREFATORY NOTICE. 



Richard Hollingworth, the Author of this an- 
cient History of Manchester, was a Fellow of 
Christ College, Manchester. I have not been 
able to ascertain whether he was a native of Man- 
chester. But I find he died, 1656, November 11th, 
in Manchester, after being imprisoned and de- 
prived of the income arising from his fellowship, 
in consequence of the breaking-up of the Col- 
legiate Body, by Colonel Thomas Birch, of Birch 
Hall, near Manchester, who, acting under the 
command of the Committee of Sequestration, 
seized forcibly the Revenues and Charter Chest of 
the College ; at which time, unfortunately, the 
splendid painted glass windows of the Church, fell 
a sacrifice to the fanatical spirit which influenced 
the soldiery under his command, 



8 PREFATORY NOTICE. 

Besides this Chronicle, the original of which lies 
in Cheetham's Library, I find Hollingworth wrote 
the following works : 

" The Main-points of Church Government and 
Discipline, Plainly and Modestly Handled, by way 
of Question and Answer." — " Certain Queries 
Modestly Propounded, &c. &c. Especially to 
Master Samuel Eaton." — " A Rejoinder to Master 
Samuel Eaton, &c. &c. Especially to his Dearly 
Beloved, and Longed for, the Inhabitants in and 
neere Manchester, in Lancashire." 

In conclusion allow me to state : — I have pub- 
lished this edition of Hollingworths Ancient 
History of Manchester, from a wish to preserve 
and make public the Chronicles relating to the 
ancient condition and state of my native town. 



MANCUNIENSIS; 

OR, 

AN HISTORY 

OF THE 

©ofcme of iHaw^tsttt. 

The ancient inhabitants of Yorkshire, 
Lancashire, Westmerland, Cumberland, and 
Durham were the Brigantes, their chiefe 
city was Yorke, sometimes called Brigan- 
tium. 

Lancashire is a county bordering on the 
Irish seas, the figure whereof is oblong, 
the air generally wholesome, the earth 
fruitfull especially for breeding cattle of 
large bodyes, and goodly heads and homes, 
and in some parts it abounds with corne, 
it is well furnished with fish, flesh and 
fowles for food, with coals and turfes for 



10 hollingworth's history 

fuel, with mines, brookes and springs, and 
other conveniences : it is divided into six 
hundreds (besydes Fournesse-fells and 
Lancaster's liberty) viz. Salford, Derby, 
Blackburn, Leyland, Amoundernes, and 
Lonsdale. 

Manchester is a town scituated in the 
South East part of this County, in the 
hundred of Salford, (which anciently when 
Lancashire was divided into tithe shires, 
was called Salford-shire, and in some an- 
cient deedes the Wapentake of Salford,) 
where the pole is elevated 53 degrees and 
24 minutes 

It is washed, yea, alhnost surrounded 
with Rivers, viz. Irke on the north and 
partly on the East ; Irwell on the West ; 
Medlock on the South ; about three miles 
from it the River Mersey is the boundary 
both of the parish of Manchester and of the 
said county on that syde, Leiland speaketh 



OF MANCHESTER. \ \ 

of Cornewater, but Hollinshead saith, hee 
knows nothing of its course, probably it is 
that which wee call Cornebrooke, a brooke 
that suddenly swells to bee a greate water, 
in which very many (before the bridge and 
the way were raysed,) were drowned, and 
suddenly falls againe to bee a little rindle, 
yea, almost dry land. 

It is not now fortifyed with a Castle or 
honored with a corporation, nor was it ever 
accommodated with a navigable river, 
(though hee that made the mapps in Mr. 
Seidell's booke, called Manclausum seeme 
to account it a maritime towne) nor so 
pleasantly or fruitfully scituated as some 
other towns, yet Mr. Camden sayth, itfarre 
excelleth the townes about it for the beauti- 
ful shew it carrieth, and for resort to it, 
yea it is the fairest, largest, and most popu- 
lous town in all the County. It is a towiie 
of right great antiquity, receiving its name 
from Maim, which (as we find by the 



12 hdllingworth's history 

glossaries of the Brittish tongue) signifies a 
rocke or stone, because it is seated on a 
rocke or stony hill. It is questioned by 
that Reverend and learned Antiquarie, 
Archbishoppe Ussher, whether Cair Maun- 
guid, or, as another calls it, Cair Maner- 
gurd (mentioned in most ancient copies of 
Ninius his catalogue of the cities of Bri- 
taine to be one of the twenty-eight cities 
of Brittaine) bee meant of this towne, or 
of Mancester in Warwickshire, hard by 
Watling-streete, the high-way made by the 
Romans; and though the sayd Archbi- 
shoppe and Mr. Camden allso incline ano- 
ther way, yet Mr. Camden confesseth 
that Mancester is but a very small village, 
containing scarce fourteen dwelling-houses, 
and these but litle ones ; and that it 
hath no monument of antiquity to shew 
saving an ancient mount which they call 
Oldbury, and it is evident that it hath not 
such honorable mencion in Antiquityes as 
this towne hath. The Romans called it 



OF MANCHESTER. 13 

Mancunium or Manucium according to the 
variety of the copies mencioned hy Antoni- 
nus the Emperor who lived about one 
hundred and twenty years after Christ. 
The thorough-fares ascribed to him are 
from Eboracum Yorke to Calearia Tadcas- 
ter then to Cambodunum, a place now 
ruined, neere Almondbury in Yorkshire, 
then to Mammuncio or Manucio Man- 
chester then to Condate Congleton in 
Cheshire. And againe from Coccium 
liibblechester to Mancunio Manchester and 
then to Condate. 

The Original of this towne, (as Speed 
allso sayth Yorke) cannot bee fetcht from 
the Romanes, for it was a station and fort 
of the Romans : now the stations of the 
Roman Colonies were the seede plotts of 
our cities and principall townes, before 
whose coming the Brittaines had no other 
cities or townes then woodes fenced with 
Trenches and Rampiers, which were places 



14 hollingworth's history 

of retreate to avoide incursion of the 
Borderers. 

In Vespasian's time, Pelitius Carealic 
strooke a terror into the whole land by 
invading upon his first entry the Brigantes, 
the most populous of the whole provinces, 
many battailes, and four bloudy ones were 
fought, and the greatest part of the Brig- 
antes were either conquered or wasted. 

In Aldport there is a plot and ground- 
worke of an ancient fortresse, where allso 
sundry Roman coines have bin digged up, 
builded four square, commonly called Man- 
castle or Mam-castle builded, as it may be 
presumed, by Virius Lupus Propraetor and 
Lieuetenant of Britaine (as Vlpian the civill 
lawyer calls him), who strengthened these 
northerne parts with forts and castles. 
From this Ancient Fortresse the place was 
afterward called Aldport : Aide for ould, 
Port in Teutonick (from whence and not 



OF MANCHESTER. 15 

from the French wee anciently have it) was 
sometimes used for a city, walled towne, or 
fenced place, as the cliiefe Magistrate of 
London before it had a maior was called 
Portgreve. 

Of any other Castle or fort neere Man- 
chester there is no memorial, save that in or 
neere to the confines of the parish toward 
Prestwich, there is a feeld called Fo-castle 
feeld and a lane called Fo-castle lane. Mr. 
Cambden visiting these parts saw at the 
fort of Alparke vppon a long stone this 
inscription : 



O CANDID! 
FIDES XX 
1111 



and John Dee, then warden of Manchester, 
copyed out this other for him : 



](5 HOLLING WORTH'S HISTORY 



CO HO I FRISIN 
3 MASAVONIS 
P XXI 1 1 



These two inscriptions, it seemeth, were for 
the preservation of the memory of two 
Centurions, that had so many years faith- 
fully and worthyly served the Romans there. 
In the year 1612, vnder the roote of an 
oake in Medlock neere I£nott-mill, was 
found a stone three quarters long, 15 inches 
broad, 11 inches thicke, with the lettered 
side downward, which Mr. Cambden saw 
not, or at least, not before the finishing of 
his Britannia, but is now to bee seene in the 
Garden at Holme, with this Inscription : 



OF MANCHESTER. ] J 



FORTYN/E 
CONSERVA 
TRICI€SE 

NECIANIVS 

MART IV S 

a LECV1 
VICT. 



This seemeth to be an Altai* dedicated to 
Fortune, by L. Senecianius Martius the 3rd 
Governor or comander in the sixth legion, 
which remained in Yorke in the time of 
Severus, his being there after he had 
vanquished Albinus, General of the Brit- 
tains, and reduced their state under his 
obedience, it was surnamed Victrix, and is 
placed by Dio in lower Britaine, and the 
20th legion, surnamed allso Victrix, remain- 

B 3 



Ig hollingworth's history 

ed at Chester which hee placeth in higher 
Britaine. This division it seemeth was 
made by the sayd Severus. In the Hep- 
tarchy this towne and the country about it, 
there being then no division into counties, 
was divided in litle regions called Hydes ; 
and was parcel of the kingdome of Northum- 
berland, which kingdome begunne about 
Anno Christi 540, and after the death of 
Edwin it was subdivided into two lesser 
Kingdomes or Provinces, Deira and Ber- 
nicia, this was parcel of Deira. This 
mindes mee of Pope Gregory, who in the 
time of his Predecessor Pelagius, seeing 
some English children brought to bee sould 
in Rome, to bee fair and beautifull, and 
understanding they were Heathens of the 
Province of Deira, alluding thereunto hee 
sayd, These people are to be delivered de 
Dei ira from Gods wrath, and therevppon 
when hee was Pope hee sent Augustine to 
convert the English. 



Of* MANCHESTER. \Q 

Geffrey Chaucer, in his tale of Con- 
stance, sayth, that in the reign of Alia, 
King of Northumberland, which begunne 
Anno 559, 

In all tfmt louB Burster* turn €1)vi&tm rout 
%\ ©fjrtsten folft bin fleD from fyt countreg 
STfirougii ^agmms tijat conqumB all about 
Qfyt plagues of JlortfmmfcarlanB ig lanB 
auB ste 

Edwin, King of this Country, one much 
loued and honored by his people, with his 
daughter Zanpled and many thousands of 
the people were converted to Christianity 
and baptized. In his days there was very 
great peace and safety throughout Nor- 
thumberland; hee caused cupps and basons 
of iron or brasse to bee fastned to such 
cleere wells and fountaines which did runne 
by the high way side, which Basons none 
did take away : hee began the Cathedrall 
Church of Yorke, named St. Peters, and 
appointed there a Bishop's Sea. Paulinus 



20 hollingworth's history 

was afterward Archbishop there ; but this 
blessed light of Christian Religion was 
extinguished within two yeares after the 
death of Edwin, and the baptized Chris- 
tians revoulted againe to Paganisme. 
Afterward came Aidanus, a Scotish man, 
(King Oswald having sent for him out of 
Scotland) and lighted the candle againe, 
and God so blessed his labors, that in 
seven whole dayes he baptized more then 
fifteen thousand. It may be hoped that 
our Ancestors of this towne did, severall 
of them, at least, receiue Christianity at 
that time, seeing King Oswald did so much 
delight in and reside at Winwicke not farre 
of. This Oswald finished the Cathedrall 
Church of Yorke, begunne by his Prede- 
cessor. 

Shortly after Manchester and a large 
compasse of ground neere to it was made a 
parish, at which time the parish Assheton- 
vnder-lyme was within the parish of Man- 



OF MANCHESTER. 21 

cliester ; but afterward it became a parish 
of it selfe and yet was in the donation of 
the Lord of Manchester. This towne is 
now called Manchester, formerly Mani- 
cester or Maincester; the Latines call a 
fortifyed place or castle Castrum ; the 
Saxons Caster and the addition of H being 
very usuall, as, Carolus Charles, Castus 
Chastus, and the turning of A into E 
sweetening the sound, Mancunij Caestrum 
or Mancaster, might bee easily contracted 
into Manchester. 

It is said that Sir Tarquine, a stout 
enemie of King Arthur, kept this castle, 
and neere to the foard in Medlock, about 
mab-house hung a bason on a tree on 
which bason whosoever did strike, Sir Tar- 
quine, or some of his company, would come 
and fight with him, and that Sir Launce- 
lot du Lake, a Knight of King Arthur's 
round table, did beate vppon the bason, 
fought with Tarquine, killed him, pos- 



22 hollingworth's history 

sessed himself of the castle and loosed the 
prisoners. Whosoever thinketh it worth 
his pains to reade more of it may read the 
history of King Arthur. It is certaine that 
about Anno Domini 520, there was such a 
Prince as King Arthur, and it is not 
incredible that hee or his Knights might 
contest about this castle when hee was in 
this County and (as Ninius sayth), hee put 
the Saxons to flight in a memorable battell 
neere Wigan, about twelve miles off. 

After that Ethelred, Bang of the 
Northumbers was slain, Anno 794 ; there 
was an Interregnum for thirty years, in 
which time this whole Province (wherein 
this towne must needs have its share) was 
made a prey and laughing stocke to its 
neigbors, saith William of Malmesbury. 
It is also sayd, that the Townesmen earned 
valiantly against the Danes, when about 
Anno Christi 863 they landed in Northum- 
berland though it is vtterly vnworthy that 



OF MANCHESTER. 23 

the inhabitants should imagine, as Mr. 
Camden pretends they did, in his time, 
that Manchester should signify the city of 
men ; and with this light and frothy 
eonceite, implying their own commendation, 
should at all please themselves; yet it is 
true, they did carry valiantly and fared the 
Avorse for it, for the Danes about ten years 
after tooke and possessed themselves of the 
whole region of Northumberland ; they 
tooke allso the city of Yorke ; they held 
the country about 60 years. Certainly at 
that time Manchester was either totally or 
in a great measure ruined, as Chester allso, 
and other cityes when their destroying 
feete trampled down the beauty of the land. 
About Anno 890, Alfred or Alured first 
divided England into Counties sayth 
Ingulfus of Crowland, and appointed cer- 
taine cvstodes or keepers of the Kingdome 
to svppresse outrages in every county. 
And hee also divided the sayd Counties 
into centuries or hundreds and certaine 



24 HOLLINGWORTH S HISTORY 

courts were by him or some others after 
him appointed to bee kept in some towne 
and place within the hundred which some- 
times was a place of good note, as Salford 
neere Manchester now is (though I cannot 
find any ancient name of it or other monu- 
ment of its antiquity) and sometimes very 
obscure, as Derby in Lancashire, Bulkeley 
in Cheshire, and Normans crosse in Hunt- 
ingtonshire, where the hundred (sayth 
Speede) takes its name from a crosse aboue 
Stilton where in former ages they mustered 
their people. Hence allso hundreds or 
wapentakes are sometimes denominated 
from beacons, Hills. Manchester certainly 
did not give name to the hundred, whether 
because it was then a city (as the story of 
those times call it), and no cityes, that I 
know of, doe give names to the Hundreds, 
having (probably) government within 
themselves, or because it was so sore 
defaced and allmost ruined, or because the 
towne of Salford was then immediately in 



OF MANCHESTER. 25 

the King's hands, as allso it hath continued 
till very lately, I leave to the judgment of 
the reader. 

About Anno 920 Edward King first oi 
the West Saxons, and afterwards of the 
Mercians, sent into the Kingdome of the 
Northumbers an army of Mercians that 
they should re-edify, sayth Roger Houden, 
the city of Manchester and place valiant 
soldiers in it ; or, (as Fabian expresseth it) 
/liis noble Piince, about the 20th yeare of 
his reigne, was chosen by the King of 
Scots and Cambreyes to bee their Lord and 
Patron ; he repayred the city of Manchester, 
that sore was defaced with the warre of the 
Danes. After which, and other notable 
deeds, by this Puissant Prince finished, this 
noble man died and was Interred in the 
Monastery of St. Swithin in Manchester. 
It was a frontier towne betweene the 
Mercians, which inhabited Cheshire, Derbi- 
shire, &c, and the Northumbers which in- 



2(> hollingworth's history 

habited Lancashire, Yorkshire, &c, and in 
their warres and mntuall incursions was 
sometimes possessed by the Mercians, 
sometimes by the Northumbrians. It was 
anciently a Burrough. Now with the 
Saxons a Burrough was the same with a 
city, as Sir Henry Spelman observes- in his 
Glossary, though afterward those principall 
townes which were Episcopal Sees did 
engrosse the name of cities, and thence 
were called Burroughes. Manchester allso 
found Burgesses for the Parliament, as 
that accurate exact lawyer, Sir Humfrey 
Davenport, Lord chief Baron of his Ma- 
jesties Exchequer, and others have asserted; 
the ancient houses thereof are in ould deeds 
called Burgagia, and the owners of them 
doe hould in Burgage-tenure or Soccage- 
tenure within a Burrough. By what 
meanes it lost its power and privilege hath 
bin conjectured by some learned men, but 
not cleered by any that I know of. Cer- 
tainly at (if not by) the conquest, and some 



OF MANCHESTER. 27 

hundreds of years after, it was in a servile 
and low condition of privileges. 

William the Conqueror presently after 
the conquest gave to Roger of Poytiers all 
that land or province lying between the 
Rivers of Rible and Mersey, (which land 
or province, in Domesday booke, is not 
described vnder the title of Lancaster but 
either with Yorkeshire or Cheshire) con- 
cerning which there is an ould Prophesy. 

Wfym all lEnglanB is aloft, 
WLtt\ wet tfjeg tfjat %xz in €f)xi$t'& ®roft 
&nU to^ere 8f)tt0 ©fjrtst'a ©roft h$, 
&ut ietbtfen* %vhhlt attB fflnstc. 

This Roger of Poytiers was the first Lord 
of the honor of Lancaster, but hee by his 
perfidious disloyalty lost [it shortly after it 
was given to him, and the Lordship of 
Manchester came to the Gredley's which 
came in with the Conqueror. 



28 HOLLING WORTH'S HISTORY 

One writetli that About Anno 1120, (a 
mistake for 1520 about 12 H. 8.) there 
were three famous clothiers living in the 
North Countrey viz. Cutbert of Kendal 
Hodykins of Halifax and Martin Brian, 
some say Byrom of Manchester. Every 
one of these kept a greate number of ser- 
vants at worke, Spinners, Carders, Weavers, 
Fullers, Dyers, Shearemen, &c. to the 
greate admiration of all that came into 
their houses to beehould them : he sayeth 
allso, that the sayd Martin gave much 
money towards the building of a free 
schoole in Manchester, which, if true, the 
money was lost or some way or other 
wickedly alienated, (which in time of the 
civil warres might easily be done) for no 
free schoole was built of about 400 yeares 
after : but that Manchester as well as 
Kendal and Halifax was a greate clothing 
towne then it is more then probable. 

Anno 1282. Inquisition was made 



OF MANCHESTER. 29 

concerning the Extent of the Manor of 
Manchester by the oathes of John de Biron, 
Geffrey Bratebrigge, Knights Jeffrey de 
Chalhyrton, David de Hulton, Alexander 
de Pilkington, Thomas de Eston, Robert 
de Sorisworth, Ellis de Levir, Richard de 
Radcliue, Robert Unton, Adam de Cun- 
cliue, Adam Son of John de Levir. In 
which mencion is made de perquisitis 
Curiae Burgi de Manchester and de placitis 
et perquisitis Curiae Baron Manerii — and 
that the Rectory of Manchester was then 
worth two hundred markes. 

Doomesday booke mencions a church 
called St. Maries in Manchester, and a 
church called St. Michaels, (tho of this latter 
I find not the least memorial! probably these 
two churches stood in one churchyard as 
Pauls and Gregories in London) which had 
unam carucam quietam ab omni consuetu- 
dine praeter Geldum. Albertus de Gredley 
gave to the church of Manchester foure 

c 3 



30 hollingworth's history 

bovata or oxg;ang;es of land in Frank 
almoine of his owne demesne. 

Didsbury chappell, the first chappell that 
was builded in this parish was (as is 
supposed) erected about this time. 

In ould evidence I find that, Anno 
1235, J Decan de Manucestre. Jurdan 
Capellan ejusdem villae. 

About Anno 1294, lived Hugo de 
Mancestria, a Dominican Frier, provinciali 
of the Preachers in England, embassadour 
to Philip, King of the Franks, deane to 
Edward the 1st and Eleanor, hee writt 
against a most impudent impostor conjurer 
and deceiuer, which by many enchantments, 
had brought his mother to madnesse ; his 
bookes left behind him were Phanaticorum 
Delicta, Compendium Theologize, and many 
others. 



OF MANCHESTER. 31 

Anno 1299, Otto cle ' Grandisone, by 
John Griffin of Grandison, and at the pre- 
sentation of the King, was made Rector of 
Manchester. 

Anno 1301, Galfridus de Stoke suc- 
ceeded him, at the presentation of Thomas 
Grelle. 

Thomas Grelle granted to the Burgesses 
of Manchester, that it should bee liber 
burgus, and enjoy certaine priuiledges 
saving to himselfe and his heires, rationabili 
tallagio, a reasonable taxe, when the King 
shall lay a tallagium or taxe on his free 
Burroughs throughout England, Witnesses 
John Byron and Richard Byron, Knights, 
Henry of Trafford, &c. See more in the 
Charter. It was confirmed by King James. 

Anno 1313, John de la Warre, Knight, 
true patron, presented John Deeverden, 
Presbyterian, to bee Rector of Manchester, 



32 hollingworth's history 

who got a dispensation that hee might 
absent himselfe from his church at the 
instance of William Herle Knight. 

A survey taken in his time sayth, The 
church of Manchester worth yearly 200 
markes, is at the presentation of the Lord 
John de la Warre. Past presented John 
Deeverden, who possesseth the endowment 
of the sayd church, consisting of eight 
Burgages in Manchester, and the villages 
of Newton, and Kirmoneshulme, (it should 
bee Kirkmanshulme), with parkes, woods, 
pastures. It mencions allso the mannor 
containing within the precinct two acres of 
land, and a place of pasture without the 
gate, between the waters of Irke and 
Irwell; allso the wood of Alport, which 
might bee inclosed and made a parke at the 
will of the Lord. It joyned to the Rectory 
of Manchester, saving that a place called 
Blenorchard or Wallegreenes was between 
them. 



01 MANCHESTER. 33 

The Manor house stood in or neere to 
the place where the Colledge now stands, 
and was called Barons Court or Barons 
Yerde, and place was called Barons Hull, 
as the neigboring banke now called Hunts 
banke was then called Hunts Hull ; and 
the Parsonage house was neere to a field 
called the Parsonage, in or neere the street 
called the Deanesgate. 

It mencions allso woods and moors of 
turbary, belonging to Manchester, which 
were so many and so large that they were 
not measured but esteemed according to the 
custome. Allso the milne of Manchester, 
uppon the water of Irke, valued at £10 per 
annum, at which all the Burgesses and 
tennants of Manchester, with the Hamells 
and Ardwickes Pensham (forte Openshaw,) 
Carmeshall, Moston, Notehurst Gethes- 
wyke, et Ancoates, ought to grinde paying 
the 16 gratne, besides the Lord of Moston, 



54 hollingworth's history 

which was hopp free, yeelding the 20th 
graine. 

Allso a common bakehouse, worth 6s. 
viijd at which the Burgesses ought to bake 
by the custome, allso a milne for the Diens 
uppon the bankes of the same river, valued 
then at xiijs. iiijd. per annum. 

Robert de Gredly, Lord of Manchester, 
gave to God and the blessed virgine, to the 
Abbot of Whalley, and to their chappell of 
St. Mary den, (now called Deane church) 
all that land lying neere to the sayd 
chappell. This land is now in the tenure 
of Mr. JohnFilsley, minister there. 

I 
Edward the 2nd gave and graunted, or 

rather confirmed the Hermitage of Kershall 

(which had bin given and graunted by his 

predecessor), to the monkes of Lenton in 

Nottinghamshire, to have and to hould it 

in puram et perpetuam eleemosynam, as 



OF MANCHESTER 35 

freely peaceably quietly and honorably as 
Hugo de Burun (who gave certaine lands 
to that Monastery and became a monkej 
had held the same. Monastery Angl . 

Anno 1327, Adam de Suthwike, pre- 
sented to bee Rector of Manchester by John 
la Warre, undoubted patron. Anno 1327, 
John de Claydon, presented to the same 
Rectory by the same patron. 

About 1330, lived Thomas Langford, 
the famous Historian, a Dominican Frier, 
of Chelmesford in Essex, who is supposed 
to bee one of the Langfords of the Hough. 

Anno 1342, Robert de Chalomber 
passed certaine lands in the Deanesgate in 
the Parsonage of Manchester to John, Son 
of John de Strangwayes, for 20d. yearely 
to be payd to the Rector. Witnesses John 
Wakerley John de Hulton— Richard of the 
Milnegate chaplaine. 



3C hollingworth's history 

About tins time allso wee read that 
Richard Braybon, Adam Longholt, Robert 
Bibby, and John de Battersby, were chap- 
lames. 

Anno 1351. After the death of the 
sayd John of Clay don, Thomas de Wyke 
or Thomas Wyke, was presented to the 
Rectory by Joane, which was the wife of 
John de la Warre, Lord of Manchester. 

Anno 1352, Commission was granted 
by the Bishop of Lichfeeld for the dedica- 
tion of the chappell yard of Didsbury, 
within the parish of Manchester, for the 
buriall of such as died of the Pestilence in 
that hamlet, and in neigboring hamlets, in 
the chappell-yard there, because of their 
distance from the parish church of Man- 
chester. 

Anno 1359. Uppon some difference 
between Roger la Warre and the Bayliffes 



OF MANCHESTER* 37 

of the Duke of Lancaster, which bayliffes 
did as hee, in his petition the sayd Duke, 
alledged amercy and gather amerciaments 
uppon the inhabitants of the town and 
manor of Manchester, to the darnmage and 
prejudice of the sayd Roger. The sayd 
Duke caused an inquisition to bee made 
at Preston before Thomas de vSeton and 
other his Justices by the oathes of John 
Radcliffe, Gates Halsal, Roger de Brad- 
shagh, Henry Son of Simon de Bickerstath, 
Robert de TraiFord, Adam de Hopwood, 
Roger de Barlow, John del Hoult, Robert 
de Hulme, John de Chetham, Thomas de 
Strangewayes, and John de Scholefield, 
which brought in uppon their oathes, That 
the sayd Roger and his Ancestors time out 
of minde held the towne of Manchester, not 
as a burrough, but as market towne, in- 
joying some priviledges as Ingfangthiefe 
&c. 

Then Thomas la Warre was presented 

D 



38 hollingworth's history 

and admitted Rector, and had a licence 
granted him to hee Non-resident ; hee was 
the last parson. 

The Rectory was then valued at 250 
Markes per annum. Shortly after hee 
being the next heir, and indeede, the only 
heir male of that family, came by the inher- 
itance to bee Lord de la Wane, his bearing 
peculiar to a priest and the Eldest of an 
honorable house ('viz. two of the neerest 
coates the first of them on the cliiefe and 
the second on the laste) is yet to bee seene 
in the windowes, as Mr. Leigh obserueth. 

This Thomas de la Warre, was the last 
heire, male of that family, and summoned 
to the Parliament amongst the Lords 
temprall by the name of Mr. Thomas de la 
Wane, for hee descended from the Grelleyes 
who were ancient Lords of this towne, and 
by Joane, sister of the sayd Thomas, it came 
lo West Lord de la Wane. 



OF MANCHESTER 39 

This Thomas being Lord of the maimor 
and parson of the church, as well as Patron, 
considering that the Parish was large and 
populous, and that the former Rectors, some 
neuer, did reside, bethoughte himself as well 
for the greater honor of the place, as the 
better edification of the people, to erect a 
Collegiate church in Manchester : to that 
purpose hee procured licence from Henry 
the 5th, dated Anno reg. 9, May 22, ynder 
the seale of the Dutchy for appropriation of 
the Rectory and foundation of the Colledge, 
for which 200 markes were payd into the 
Hanaper or Exchequer of the Chancery. 
Then the Parishioners, viz. 



40 



HOLLIKCWORTH S IIISTOKT 



Churchwardens. 



Knights. 



LAWRENCE HULME, 
HENRY BULKELEY, 

JOHN LE BYRON, 
3 OHANNES DE RADCLIFFE 
EDMUND TRAFFORD, 
JOHN DE BOOTH, 
RADULPH LONGFORD, 
THURSTAN DE HOLLAND, 
JACOB STRANGEWAYES, 
ROBERT DE HYDE, 
ROBERT DE BOOTH, 
OTHO DE REDDICH, 
JOHANNES DE BARLOW, 
RADULPH DE PRESTWICH 
PETRUS DE WORKESLIE, 
JACOB DE HULME, 
JOANNES DE HULTON, 
WILLIAM DE BIRCHES, 
JOHN BAMFORD, 
LAURENTIUS DE BARLOW 
GALFRIDUS HOPWOOD, 
GALFRIDUS DE HILTON, 
WILLIAM DE HIGHFEELD, J 

and all and every Parishioners gathered 
together at the sound of the hell, and the 
community and university of the sayd 



Gentlemen. 



OF MANCHESTER. 41 

paiish, so farre as this nr'ght any way con- 
cerne them, did for themselves, their heires 
and successors, give their free assent and 
consent thervnto, and draw up a writing to 
that purpose, sealed with the deeds of the 
Deane of Manchester and aboue twenty 
other seales. 

Then the sayd Thomas de la Warre 
made a deed of gift and feoffment of his 
lands and Rectory of Manchester to Thomas 
Bishop of Durham, (who was allso chaunce- 
lor of England, and amongst other his good 
workes founded two schools at Place-greene, 
one of Grammer, and the other ofMusicke) 
John Heneye, Richard Lombard, Parson of 
Holtham church, and Richard Firth. 

This Thomas, Bishop of Durham, See, 
founded a Collegiate Church ; consisting of 
one Keeper or Master, eight fellowes chap- 
laines, foure clerkes, and sixe choristers, in 
honor of St. Mary (to whom this Parish 

D 3 



42 HOLLINGWORTH S HISTORY 

church was formerly dedicated, and of St, 
Dyonyse, Patron St. of France, and St, 
George, Patron St. of England, (the sayd 
Thomas de la Warre being partly a French- 
man and partly an English-manJ ; and 
having first resigned by Proxy, made to 
William Brinkley, cannon of Litchfeeld, 
and to Thomas Gierke, Chaplaine. 

This was allso confirmed first, by 
Richard Crosby, Prior of the convent of 
of Coventry, and Henry Hallsall, Arch- 
deacon of Chester, and then by William, 
Bishop, and Thomas Strelton, Deane, and 
the chapter, at Litchfeeld. 

' Then Thomas de la Warre presented to 
William, Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, 
John Huntingdon to bee the Master or 
Keeper of the sayd Colledge ; and the sayd 
Thomas, Bishop of Durham, &c, did give, 
grant, and confirmed vnto the sayd John 
Huntingdon five Messuages and ten Acres 



OF MANCHESTER, 43 

of land, which were parcells of the manor of 
Manchester, one Messuage with the appur- 
tenances with one acre and twenty foure 
Pearches, called Barrons hull and Barrons 
yerde ; eight acres of land in Neder 
Aldport ; one messuage in Gorton greene, 
of eleven pearches ; another in Heaton, of 
eleven pearches. 

This John Huntingdon, Batchelor in 
Degrees, and Rector of Assheton, vnder- 
lyme, was warden neere forty years, a man 
learned in the learning of those times, very 
devout and magnificent, hee built the 
Chancel or Quire, in the midst whereof and 
iust before the high altar, as then it stood, 
hee lyes buried with the suitable inscription, 
Domine dilexi decorem domus tuse. His 
Rebus or nftrne-devyse (a custome borrowed 
from the FrenchJ, is to bee seene on either 
syde of the Middle arch, as it looketh East- 
ward : on the Syde is an Huntsman with 
dogges whereby hee thought to expresse the 



44 HOLLINGWORTllV HISTORY 

two former sillables of his name ; Hunting ; 
on the other syde, a vessell called a Tonne, 
which being ioined together makes Hunt- 
ington ; which is as good or better than 
Morton, A. B. of Canterbury, a man of a 
prudent and publique Spirit, was content to 
use, viz. Mor uppon a tonne, and sometime? 
a mulbery Tree, called in Latine, Morua 
coming out of a tonne, to expresse his 
name of Morton. 

About this time, or not long before, for 
ought appeares ended, the present large 
and stately stone buildinge, which wee call 
the Church, being formerly a vast wooden 
building not much vnlike (save that probab- 
ly it was more adorned) to the Boothes 
where the Court Leete, Court Baron, of the 
Lord, and the quarter Sessions, are now 
kept. Credible tradition sayth the one part 
of the sayd woodden building was removed 
to Oardsall, another part to Clayton ; but 
the maine body was remooved to Trafford, 



OP MANCHESTER. 45 

which is standing to this day, and now 
called the greate Barne. Who did most in 
the building of it is not certainly known, 
but the names and armes of the Stanleys 
Wests, Radcliffes of Radcliffe (some re- 
mainder of the Alabaster Statues (as it is 
sayd) of twoo of them are yet on the North 
Syde of the Quire) Byrons, Radcliffes of 
Oardsall, and others now or lately in the 
windowes, doe witnesse their assistance : 
onely one Richard Bexwick did many 
workes of piety and charity towards the 
Master and fellowes, and for the decent and 
honorable reparation and amendment of the 
sayd Quire and body of the sayd church ; 
and other Parishioners doubtless did freely 
contribute thereunto ; hence is that vulgar 
mistake that Didsbury church is more 
ancient than Manchester, which ammounts 
to no more truth (if so much) than that the 
present structure of Didsbury chappell is 
more ancient than the present structure of 
Manchester church, as allso their Font was 



46 HOLLING WORTH'S HISTORY 

much bigger, because when dipping of 
children and baptizing of Heathens grew 
most out of. vse, then the Baptisteries were 
lesse or lesse. 

The windowes were richly painted, the 
east window of the South Isle had Michael 
and his Angells ; the nine orders of Angells 
fighting with the Dragon and his Angells : 
the East window of the North Isle had St. 
Austen and St. Ambrose singing Te Deum 
laudamus, and the other windowes repre- 
sented some canonical or Ecclesiasticall 
story. In the middle Stanchion evry 
window, especially in the twenty-four vpper- 
most windowes, was the picture of the 
Virgine Mary. But at the uppmost end of 
the Outmost North ally, neere to Strange- 
wales chappell, was a very rich window, 
whereby was described our Saviors arreigne- 
ment and crucifixion, with some pictures of 
the Trinity with these verses : 



OF MANCHESTER. 47 

Sotr tljat gs of mtgftfg most 
jfetmr anB £on ana 3§olg ^ost 

(Sgff gr* . ". 

&nB feeege tfjagr sottite out of ijdl 
STijat maBe tfjgs tognBo as gc mag se 
In toorsljtppe of tfje Stemte* 

I-imt goSe wDtng* 

t gs tognBo gaff ang tfigng?* 

In this corner vnder this window, its 
probable there stood an altar, and that it 
was a place of much devotion, it is sard it 
was for the countrey. 

In the chappell, where morning sermons 
were wont to bee preached, called St. 
George his chappell, belonging now to John 
Radcliffe, of Oardsall, Esquire, was the 
Statue of St. George on horseback, hanged 
up; his horse was lately in the Sadlers 
shop. The Statues of the Virgin Mary, 
and St. Dvonvse, the other Patron Saints, 

* Forte, give them grace to do well. 
f Forte, give them. 
j Forte, That to. 



48 hollin&worth's history 

were uppon the two highest pillars next to 
the Quire, vnto them men did bow at their 
coming into the church. 

Anno 1465, Ralph Langley, Rector of 
Prestwich, was, at the presentation of 
Richard Hatfeeld and Nicholas Stathome, 
whom Richard West, Kt, Lord de la War, 
had made Patrons for this time only, ad- 
mitted Master and Keeper of the sayd 
Colledge. 

James Abbot of Abendon, the Nuncio 
and commissary generall of Sixtus the 4th, 
the contentious, if not allso vitious, Pope, to 
the Kingdome of England, to Wales and 
Ireland, with the Collector of the revenues 
of the Apostolicke chamber, were at Man- 
chester, and for money paycl (as was pre- 
tended) for the maintenance of Christians 
againste the Turke, granted plenary In- 
dulgences, as if on a day of Jubilee they 
had visited personally at Rome. 



OF MANCHESTER. 49 

In the Rentall of Thomas West, Lord 
de la warre, occasional mencion is made of 
John Raueald, Hugh Wrightington, 
Thomas Whitehead, Jacob Bardisley, 
Nicolas Raueald, chaplaines, and fellowes 
of the Colledge of the wardens then hould- 
ing of the Lord of the Manor, the Parke 
called Nether Alport, and fishing in the 
river of Irke, for a certaine rent ; and of the 
guild or company of the Blessed Virgin 
Mary, in Manchester, houlding some 
burgages of him of one Richard Hill, which 
had the Cornemill for £6 per annum : allso 
John TrafFord, Kt, houlding one parcel of 
Wast lying in Manchester, neere to the 
Boothes, uppon which parcel of land, only 
one shop was then lately builded ; so that 
it seemes the rest were builded since. Wee 
reede allso of one Roger de Parker and 
William Walker, chaplaines, about that 
time. 

There was likewise John Browne a 



50 hollingworth's history 

fellow which delighted in a large pitt uppon 
or neere to the high knowles and causing a 
double hedge, and walkes and seates to bee 
made about it, (possibly for his meditation) 
gave it thee name it hath to this day, Sir 
John Browne's pitt. 

Anno 1481, July 27, Ralph Longley 
resigned the keepership or mastership of 
the Colledge to James Stanley, Dr. of 

Divinitv and Archdeacon of Richmond. 

*j 

Anno 1485, vppon the death of the 
sayd James Stanley, another James Stan- 
ley was made maistre or keeper of the 
Colledge. Hee was brother to the Earle 
of Derby. Hee was sometime Bishop of 
Ely ; one more voluptuous than virtuous. 
Hee usually spent the summer at Sum- 
merham, a fane dwelling, within three 
miles of St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire, 
which E. Britlmot gave to Ely church, and 
enlarged it with new buildings, rather for 



OF MANCHESTER. 51 

satisfying of his lust (for ibi muliercuiam 
alebat ne clicam concubinam, &c). then for 
any devotion to preserve or amend the 
houses belonging to his sea; for hee be- 
stowed little or nothing, either on Ely 
church, or any other house belonging to it. 
In the winter hee lived with his brother 
in Derbyshire : (possibly Derby hundred, 
which in ould bookes was called Derbishire, 
as allso wee reade of Salfordshire, Blackburne- 
shire,) wherever hee lived, hee was vnwor- 
thy of the family hee descended from, and 
of the honors hee did enjoy ; yet, it may in 
charity be judged, that hee repented of his 
wicked life, or else his monumentall in- 
scription is unsuitable to him, though it 
may bee seasonable for us. Hee built the 
large chappell on the north syde of the 
church in the honor of Jesus Christ and 
John the Baptist, and lyes interred in the 
inner chappell vnder a faire tombe, which 
after the inscription hath these homely but 
honest verses. 



52 hollingworth's history 

Vfot B*o grattta toto rotm&o tttmulattts, 
©rimiw rounBatus semper transtre paratus* 

and this holesom advice in prose, which 
Chrysostome sayth, if hee had a voice like 
thunder, and a mighty mountaine for his 
pulpit, and all the men of the world for his 
auditory, he would chuse for his text to 
preach on. 

Filii hominum usque quo gravi corde 
vt quid diligitis vanitatem et quoeritis men- 
dacium. Vtinam saperent et navissima 
prouiderent. And vppon the inscription in 
brasse on the doore, Vanitas vanitatum et 
via vanitatis; and all the windowes full of 
memorate novissima. 

Anno 1505, care was taken for the re- 
paration of the chappell standing on Salford 
bridge ; built, as it is sayd, by Thomas dell 
Booth, in Edward the Third's time. He 
certainely gave thirty pounds towards the 
building of Salford bridge, and it was very 



OF MANCHESTER. 53 

vsuall on greate bridges to build chappells, 
in which they did pray for the soules of their 
founders. This chappell is now converted 
to a prison for Manchester and Salford. 

1506, this James Stanley, master or 
keeper of the Colledge, Sir John Bamford, 
William Bradford, John Lording, Richard 
Massy, Ralph Mody, Henry Siddall, and 
John Bexwick, priests, fellowes, parsons or 
rectors, and proprietaries of the church 
granted certaine priviledges to Jesus chap- 
pell, on the south, built by the sayd 
Richard, son of Roger Bexwick, of Man- 
chester; and to the chaplaines of the Guild, 
(the first or chiefe of which was Sir Oliver 
Thomeley) that they should not onely offi- 
ciate there, but should allso receive all 
guifts, oblations, obventions, &c. given for 
the service of Jesus Christ, and in the 

This chappell was, 4th Elizabeths, by 
honor of the name Jesus. 

E 3 



54 hollingworth's history 

Isabel Beck, widow, sole heir of the sayd 
Richard Bexwicke, given to Francis Pen- 
dleton and Cecyly his wife, daughter of the 
sayd Isabell, whose successor now lately 
sould it or gave it (being very ruinous, and 
the roofe fallen down, and the lead sould or 
stollen) to the towne of Manchester to bee 
an English library. The sayd Isabel Becke 
did allso build the Conduit in Manchester. 

The next chappell to it, commonly 
called TrafFord chappell, Thomas del Booth, 
son and heire of Thomas Booth, knight, 
the founder of it, gave to Hugh Scoales, 
chaplaine, a certaine place in Bexwick, 
together with the advowson of the chauntry 
of St. Nicolas, in St. Marie's church, in 
Manchester; and the sayd Hugh Scoales 
gave the sayd premises to John Trafford, 
Knight. 

The lowest chappell, on the south side, 
was, sayth a monument in the midst of it, 



OF MANCHESTER. 55 

bilded by William Galley, sumtime mar- 
chaunt of Manchester, and Elizabeth, his 
wife, and Nicolas, his broder and executor 
on thys their costs: hee died Anno 1508. 
It is now possessed by Richard Radcliffe, 
Esq. 

The highest chappell was probably 
builded by the Byrons ; it now r belongs to 
George Cheetham, of Clayton, Esq. 

Strangewayes chappell was probably 
builded by one of the Strangewaies : it now 
belongs to John Hartley, of Strangewayes, 
Esq. In it there is a pardon vnder the 
picture of the Resurrection of Christ from 
the sepulchre. The pardon for five Pater- 
noster, five aves and a creede, is xxvj. 
thousand, and xxvj. dayes of pardon. 

Anno 1509, Robert ClifFe, Batchelor in 
Decrees, was warden or master of the Col- 
ledge ; to whom, and to the chapleines his 



56 HOLLINGWORTH S HISTORY 

fellowes, the trust of the Schoole and the 
lands thereof were committed. 

Anno 1518, George West, a kinsman 
of West, then Lord de la Warre, was mas- 
ter or keeper of the Colledge. Both these 
were wardens before the death of the sayd 
James Stanley. 

Anno 1519, Hugh Oldham, D.D. and 
Bishop of Exeter, died, who out of the good 
mind hee bare to the county of Lancaster, 
being, I believe, his native county, perceiv- 
ing that the children thereof having preg- 
nant wits, were for the most part brought 
up rudely and icllely; that Knowle ledge 
might be advanced, (the art of grammer 
being the ground and fountaine of all the 
liberal! arts and sciences) and that children 
might bee occupyed in good learning, and 
better taught to love, honor, and dread God 
and his lawes, founded the free schoole in 
Manchester. Hee was chapleine to the 



OF MANCHESTER. 57 

renowned Lady Margaret, Countesse of 
Richmond, and by her meanes preferred to 
the Bishoprique of Exeter, Anno 1504. 
Hee gave lands to maintaine a common 
table for the vicars tof the sayd church. 
Hee was a zealous defender of the liberties 
of his church, and had a tedious suite with 
the Abbot of Tavistock about them. Hee 
pers waded Bishop Fox to found Corpus 
Christi Colledge, in Oxon, and in that 
worke furnished him with much money; 
himselfe builded the cloysters of the sayd 
colledge. In their statutes hee is stiled 
piimarius benefactor. Hee had in his 
minde to endow Exeter Colledge, but uppon 
distast given him in regard his letters, in 
behalfe of one Atkins for a fellowship in 
that colledge, did not succeede, hee diverted 
his bounty to Corpus Christi Colledge. 
Hee bought the lands on which the Schoole- 
house in Manchester stands, and tooke the 
milne there in lease of the Lord de la 
Warre, for sixty yeares. Afterward, Hugh 



58 hollingworth's history 

Bexwick, priest, and Joane his sister, 
widdow, with the sayd Bishop's money, 
purchased of the sayd West (Lord de la 
War,) his land in the Ancoates, and the 
milnes seated vppon Irke, and free fishing 
from Ashley -lane to Irwell, with pow r er to 
sett downe stakes, and fence in the sayd 
river, or on etther syde; and left all in 
feoffment to the sayd schoole for ever. 
The sayd Bishop, it is sayd, w r as pietate 
laudatior quam doctrinam, somewhat rude 
in speech, but in deede and action friendly 
and bountifull. It is evident hee was a 
favorer and promoter of learning. His 
effigies is in Corpus Christi Colledge, 
quadrangle with the effigies of their founder, 
Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, who 
w r as Lord Privy Seale, and a man of great 
account in Henry the Seventh's reigne. 
It w r as aliso at the end of the schoole ; but 
being newly painted and adorned before 
the parliament, was the more eyed by soul- 
diers, who had a zeale not according to 



OF MANCHESTER. 59 

knowledge, and was by them pulled downe : 
these men were more likely to pull down 
the schoole-house allso, then to imitate him 
in building such another. The Pope 
favoring the Abbot of Tavistock in the 
above-mencioned suite, and finding not the 
Bishop so pliable to the court of Rome as 
hee expected, did excommunicate him ; 
vnder which censure hee died, and might 
not be buried till his absolution was pro- 
cured from Rome. Hee lyes interred in a 
little chappell east out of the vppmost end 
of the south wall of the Cathedral church 
of Exeter; which chappell was built by 
himselfe in his lifetime, and adorned with 
curious worke and rich windowes, having 
onely this inscription on a fan* monument : 
Hie jacet Hugo Ouldam, anno 1519. 
John Voysie, who was allso Lord President 
of Wales, succeeded him in the Bishop- 
rique, and M. Parker, A.B., of Canterbury, 
and Alexander Nowel, Deane of Paule's, 
in founding schooles in Lancashire — the 



(JO hollingworth's history 

one at Ratchdal, the other at Midleton. 
The first feoffees nominated by the sayd 
Bishop for the sayd free schoole, in Man- 
chester, were Lewis Pollard, knight, An- 
thony Fitzherbert, knight justice, William 
Courteney, knight, Thomas Davis, knight, 
Alexander Radcliffe, knight, John Biron, 
Edmund Trafford, Richard Assheton, 
Thurstan Tildsley, Robert Langley, Ri- 
chard Holland, John Reddich, Esquires. 
Anno 1535. George Collier was warden 
or master of the Colledge. 

Anno 1540, Henry the Eighth founded 
the Bishoprique of Chester: it was made 
up of two Archdeaconries of Chester and 
Richmond; it was first ordained to bee 
within the province of Canterbury by the 
letters patents of the foundation, but the 
king shortly after, by act of parliament, 
annexed it to the province of Yorke ; and 
because the clergy of Lancashire, Cheshire, 
and some other places, were much eased of 






OF MANCHESTER. (j\ 

their long journies, and the bishoprique 
had but small revenues, mortuaries were 
allowed to the bishop, from the clergy, at 
the death of every incumbent respectively; 
viz., the best horse apparell, booke, signet, 
&c. John Bird, Bishop of Bangor, was 
preferred to bee Bishop of Chester for his 
preaching against the Pope's supremacy. 

The towne of Manchester having bin 
anciently a sanctuary, was one of the seven 
of all the cathedralls, collegiate parish 
churches, hospitalls, or chappells, which 
were allowed and taken to bee places oi 
priviledge and tuition for terme of life, for 
all and singular ofFendors and malefactors ; 
except wilfull murther, rape, burglary, rob- 
bery, by the highway or in houses, felonious 
burning of houses and their abettors. Sta- 
tute anno thirty-second Henry VIII. 

But within a yeare or twoo, the sanc- 
tuary being found prejudicial to the wealth, 



(32 HULLING WORTH'S HISTORY 

credit greate occupyings and good order of 
the said towne ; in which towne, sayth the 
statute, it is expedient that honest, true and 
credible persons, and not any manner of 
light person or persons should inhabit,) by 
occasioning idlenesse, vnlawfulle games, 
vnthriftinesse, and other enormityes in the 
laborers, servants, and others of the said 
towne ; and because divers thefts, and rob- 
beries, and felonies were committed, and 
the towne not walled, nor had any Maior, 
Sheriffe, BaylifFe, or other head officer then 
the Steward of the Lord of the Manor, nor 
any prison or gaole. The sayd act of 
parliament was annulled, and the sanctuary 
remooued to West Chester, which had no 
such trade of merchandize, and had a 
strong gaole. A Maior, Bayliffes, &c. 
Statute anno thirty-third Henry VIII. 

By virtue or presence of an act of par- 
liament, in the first yeare of Edward the 
Sixth, the Colledge of Manchester was dis- 



Or MANCHESTER. 63 

solved, and the lands and revenues belong- 
ing to it were taken into the king's hands, 
and were by him demy seel to Edward, 
Earle of Derby ; and the house called the 
Colledge, and some lands in Aldport were 
then or soone after (as it is sayd) sould to 
the sayd Earle, who was carefull, as our 
fathers have tould us, to provide very well 
for three or foure ministers officiating in the 
church. 

Aimo 1572, by inquisition vppon oath 
it was allso found, that the Earle of Derby 
had purchased of the Prince, Over, All- 
port, and three burgages in the Milnegate 
and Fenelstreete, being chauntry lands; 
and, indeede, severall chauntries belonged 
to the parish church of Manchester, which 
had their severall endowments ; one wherein 
Sir William TrafFord was last incumbent, 
another called Cheetam's chauntry, wherein 
Sir James was last incumbent, besydes 
others. 



64 hollingworth's history 

The towne in that age was of greate 
account, sayth Mr. Cambden, for certaine 
woollen clothes there wrought, and in great 
request, commonly called Manchester cot- 
tons. Concerning which, it was enacted, 
that all and every cottons called Manches- 
ter, Lancashire, and Cheshire cottons, 
shalbee (being full wrought to the sale) in 
length twenty-two* yards, and conteine, in 
breadth, three quarters of a yard in the 
water, and shall weigh thirty pounds the 
piece at the least. And that all clothes 
called Manchester rugges, or Manchester 
frizes shalbee thirty-six yards long, three- 
quarters broad, coining out of the water, 
and shall not bee stretched on the tenture 
or otherwise above a nayle of a yard in 
breadth, and being so fully and well dryed 
shall weigh, every piece, fourty-eight 
pounds at the least. Statute anno 5 et 6to 
Edward VI. 

Though it is like that many gentlemen 



OE MANCHESTER 05 

of the parish of Manchester had bin high 
sheriffes of the county before, yet I could 
find no record ancienter then Edward the 
Sixth, in whose first yeare Sir Alexander 
RadclifFe, of Oardsall, Knight, was high 
SherifFe. 

Queene Mary refounded the Colledge, 
restored allmost all the lands, (the Earle of 
Derby still keeping the Collegiate house, 
and some other small things), appointed 
one master or keeper, eight fellowes chap- 
laines, foure clerkes, and sixe choristers, 
and did allso confirme and reestablish the 
statutes of the first foundation, and placed 
George Collier in his wardenship againe. 
This George Collier came along with Dr. 
Pendleton to Mr. Bradford to dispute with 
him, anno 1555. 

The sayd Dr. Pendleton was, in King 
Henries dayes, a Papist; in King Ed- 
ward's dayes, hee recanted in Manchester, 

E 3 



QQ hollingworth's history 

(being one of the preachers there, main- 
teined out of the revenues of the then 
dissolved colledge) and became an earnest 
assertor and preacher of the gospell : in 
Queene Maries dayes, meeting with Mr. 
Saunders in the country, (about Coventry 
it's like, where Mr. Saunders lived, and 
Dr. Pendleton went that very way to 
London), and discoursing of the persecu- 
tions then arising, Saunders complaining 
that though his spirit was ready to 
suffer, his flesh was weake, and loth 
to tast of that bitter cup. Pendleton 
being a fat bigg man, ouer-selfe-confi- 
dently sayd, I will see the vtmost dropp of 
this grease of mine molten away, and the 
last gobbet of this flesh consumed to asshes, 
before I will forsake God and his truth, 
but the issue prooued otherwise when they 
came to London. Saunders bouldly 
preached Christ, opposed antichrist, and 
sealed his doctrine with his bloud at Co- 
ventry. Pendleton, sayth Mr. Fox, 



OF MANCHESTER. (37 

changed his tippet, preached popery, and, 
being learned, was a greate disputer for it 
above ; and was sent, or of his owne accord 
came downe to Manchester and other places 
to recant his recantation, and to preach vp 
popery, which occasioned Mr. Bradford to 
admonish his christian friends and country- 
men to beware of him. This Mr. Bradford 
was borne and brought up in Manchester, 
and then became a servant to Sir John 
Harrington; thence hee went to Cam- 
bridge,' where his extraordinary diligence 
and proficiency in learning made him 
Master of Art the first yeare, and presently 
after, Fellow of Pembroke hall. Bishop 
Ridley preferred him to bee a prebend in 
St. Paul's church, in London. Martin 
Bucer encouraged him (being very modest, 
and much complaining of his insufficiency) 
to bestow his talent in preaching, saying to 
him, If thou have not fine Manchet bread, 
yet give the poore people barley bread, or 
whatsoeuer the Lord hath comitted vnto 



68 hollxng^vouth's history 

thee ; wherevppon be was ordeined presby- 
ter, and became an eloquent preacher, 
fervent in prayer, an able disputant, a wise 
comforter of afflicted soules, preaching, 
praying, writing, meditating, was his whole 
life ; hee was more ynwilling to spend 
time then money; hee ate usually but one 
meale a day, and that hee often mixed with 
weeping, yet sometimes hee was merry in 
the Lord. As Crammer was for his place 
the most eminent of the martyrs, so Dr. 
Ridley was accounted the most learned, 
and Mr. Bradford the most pious. Mr. 
Fox more usually calleth him then any of 
the other holy martyr. Parsons, the Jesu- 
ite can object against him nothing, but that 
hee was a minister made of a serving-man 
and a puritan in those dayes. The first of 
which is an unjust accusation, as appears by 
his greate learning and orderly entrance, 
by ordination, into the ministry. The 
later, I thinke, is grounded vppon his 
opinion, that the scripture knew no differ- 



OF MANCHESTER. 69 

ence betweene Bishops and Presbyters, 
which then was not onely the current 
opinion of the* Protestants, but of Dr. 
Harpesfeeld, Archdeacon, who asserted the 
same thing in his conference with Mr. 
Bradford. Dr. Taylor rejoiced, and blessed 
God that had sent him into that prison, 
where hee found such an angell of God to 
comfort him (meaning Mr. Bradford). 
Bishop Ridley, writing to Mr. Cheeke, 
King Edward's tutor, rejoiceth that hee had 
procured such able preachers of God's word 
in London diocesse, and hee nameth Mr. 
Grinclall (which afterwards in Queene Ma- 
ries dayes was in exile, and in Queene 
Elizabeth dayes was Archbishop of Canter- 
bury,) and Mr. Bradford, by whom, as I, 
sayth hee, God hath and doth worke 
wonders in setting forth his word, &c. 

Hee writt severall tracts and letters, be- 
sydes these mencioned by Mr. Fox. Some 
are printed, some are not. 



70 HOLLIXGWOKTH S HISTORY 

His meditations unci prayers. 

A meditation and instruction of the Pro^' 
deuce of God to me J. B. 

A meditation of the presence of God, 

A meditation of the flesh and spirit ; or, a 
declaration how those words, flesh and 
spirit, are to bee understood in Scripture. 

A sermon of Repentance. 

A sermon of the Lord's Supper, in which 
are nine reasons against transubstantia- 
tion. In the end of it is more practical, 
and hath a word of satisfaction to a poore 
sinner that thinkes himselfe vnworthy. 

A treatise of Election and Free Will, of 
which nature there is allso another letter 
to certaine men not rightly persuaded in 



Ot MANCHESTER. 71 

the doctrine of God's election and pre- 
destination. 

A meditation of Death, out of Ludovicus 
Vives. 

A meditation for the true exercise of Mor- 
tification. 

A meditation vppon the Passion of our 
Saviour Jesus Christ, and a most earnest 
prayer vppon the sayd passion. 

A meditation yppon the Ten Command- 
ments and the Lord's Prayer, while hee 
was imprisoned. 

A meditation vppon the Sacraments. 

Sundry other prayers. 

A letter of his owne hand, beginning Jesus 
Immanuel to my dearest sister in the 



72 hollingworth's history 

Lord, Joice Hales, J. Bradfield, wishetli 
all encrease of godlinesse in Christ. The 
summe of it is to explaine that place in 
Rom. viii. 19, 20, 21, that it is to bee 
vnderstood of the renovation of the world, 
and of the better condicion of all crea- 
tures. This discourse he styleth Cygnea 
Cantio : it was not long before his suffer- 
ings. 

A letter to Mr. Philpot about Vnity. 

A letter to Mr. Coker, in Maiden, in Essex, 
entreating him to harbor one John 
Searchfeeld, a bookebinder, who, in 
Queene Maries dayes, did wander to 
keepe a good conscience. 

A letter to Dr. Ridley, subscribed by him- 
selfe, Mr. Philpot and others, in which is 
this expression— All here (God therefore 
bee praysed) prepare to pledge then 



OF MANCHESTER. 73 

captaine Christ, even when hee will, and 
how hee will. 

A letter written from the Countre, in the 
Poultry, to Mr. Shalcrosse and his wife, 
dwelling in Lancashire, exhorting to con- 
stancy and perseverance in keeping 
themselves undefiled in God's sei-vice in 
fighting the good fight : hee desires to 
be commended to Sir William Chorlton, 
who, sayth hee, I trust hath kept him- 
selfe free from idolatry; God grant hee 
may so continue : and to Thomas Ridle- 
stone, though, I feare, sayth hee, hee 
hath defiled himselfe in this false service. 
Hee mencions allso, a booke, which 
James Bradshaw had of his ; possibly it 
is the same good man that writt to 
George Marsh, another of our Lancashire 
martyrs. 

There is allso in the MS. of Immanuel 
Colledge, a letter from Elizabeth Longsho 



74 hollingworth's history 

to Mr. Bradford, mencioning his preaching 
in Lancashire, and blessing God for it; 
and the benefit and comfort shee received 
by it; and in the postscript shee desires 
him to have remembrance of a maide of the 
parish of Prestige, (a woman's spelling for 
Prestwich) whose name is Alice Seddon, 
which doth not cease to pray for you night 
and day. 

This Mr. Bradford came downe, in 
King Edward's dayes, into the countrey, 
preached the word of God (as Dr. Pendle- 
ton then allso did) in Manchester; and allso 
at Eccles, Prestwich, Midleton, RadclifFe, 
Assheton vnderlyme, Stopport, Mottrime, 
Wimsley, Boulton, Bury, Wigan, Liver- 
pool, and the city of Westchester. And 
God gave good successe to the ministry of 
the word ; and both raysed vp to himselfe, 
and preserved a faithful people in Lanca- 
shire, especially in and about Manchester 
and Bolton, some names of whom wee find 



OF MANCHESTER. 75 

in Mr. Fox, his acts and monuments, and 
in the afore-recited catalogue of his workes. 
Their minister, I conceive, was father 
Travers; in King Edward's dayes, the 
minister of Blakeley, and outed in Queene 
Maries dayes, and Sir Thomas Hall, who 
lived neere unto, and much counselled Mr. 
Bradford's mother. 

It is commonly and credibly reported, 
that one Rider, of Smedley, was imprisoned 
for, that hee, in King Edward's dayes, was 
one that pulled a Popish Priest out of the 
pulpit, that a preacher might goe vp. 

It is reported and believed, that John 
Bradford, preaching in Manchester, in King 
Edward's dayes, tould the people, as it 
were, by a prophetical spirit, that because 
they did not readily embrace the Word of 
God, the Masse should bee sayd againe in 
that church, and the play of Robin Hood 



76 HOLLINfcWORTH's HISTORY 

acted there, which accordingly came to 
passe in Queene Maries reigne. 

The imprisonment of the sayd Mr. 
Bradford, the conferences hee had, the 
examination of him, and his being burned 
for the reformed religion at London, 
(though it was at first intended hee should 
have bin burned at Manchester), and how 
Woodroffe, the Sheriffe of London, strucke 
Roger Bexwick, his brother-in-law, then 
living in Manchester, as hee was speaking 
with Mr. Bradford, and the hand of God 
vppon the sayd Woodroffe, and many other 
things are fully related by Mr. Fox, to 
whom I referre the reader. 

Laurence Vaux, B.D. and chaplaine to 
James Brookes, Bishop of Glocester, who, 
with one John Coppage, were the onely 
fellowes nominated in the foundation of 
Philip and Mary, was, according to the 
said foundation, admitted and canonically 



OF MANCHESTER. 77 

instituted and inducted, ad curam, et regi- 
men animarum, to the care and govern- 
ment of soules in the office of being, 
master and keeper of St. Maries colledge, 
in Manchester. Hee was laborious, 
learned, and in his way, devout and 
and conscientious. 

In Queene Maries short reigne, Man- 
chester parish furnished the county with 
one High Sheriffe, Sir Edmund Trafford, 
of Trafford, Knight, anno 3rd and 4th 
P. et M. 

God did wonderfully hyde his people in 
Lancashire, in the time of Queen Mary; 
some, indeed, went beyond sea, as Thomas 
Leuer, chosen Minister of the English 
church at Zurich; from whence hee writ 
to Mr. Bradford, then prisoner in the 
Tower, exhorting him to patience and con- 
stancy, vsing this motive, Your cause is 
goQd, and your friends bee in favor, and 

G 3 



7g HOLLINGWORTH S HISTORY 

your enemies in displeasure with Almighty 
God your heavenly father. James Pilkin- 
ton, which returning from exile, was made 
the Queen's Divinity Professor, in Cam- 
bridge: hee preached at the Restitution of 
M. Bucer and Paulus Phagius' bones, 
vppon Psalm cxii. 1. ; Blesseth is the man 
that feareth God, &c. Hee was afterward 
Bishop of Durham. Goodman, Files, and 
others. Yet sundry Protestants stayd at 
home, who were not much molested by the 
Bishops ; for John Bird, Bishop of Chester, 
was deprived, first Marie, for being maried, 
and George Coles was not preferred to the 
Bishoprique till the third of Queen Mary, who 
sate but a little while after hee had burned 
at Chester, George Marsh, of the parish of 
Deane, neere Boulton, and then Cuthbert 
Scot, D.D., who had bin imprisoned in the 
Fleete, and had escaped to Lovaine, was 
returned and made Bishop in his roome, 
and hee was so busy in the visitation of the 
famous vniuersity of Cambridge, which 



= OF MANCHESTER. 79 

drave away sundry Protestants out the 
vniuersity, four and twenty out of one 
Colledge, and in taking vp Martin Bucer 
and Paulus Phagius' bones, that hee did 
litle in his owne diocesse. Towards the 
later end of Queen Mary, hee held a 
visitation, and caused sundry in and about 
Manchester to bee imprisoned in the Col- 
ledge, which, at the death of Queen Mary 
were released : their names, as tradition 
sayth, were Ridlestones, Wharmbies, &c. 
Then Bishop Scot fled againe to Lovaine, 
where hee died. 

Anno 1560, in the second of Queen 
Elizabeth, William Birch, M.A., a younger 
brother of Birch-hall, who was ordeined by 
by Bishop Ridley, the Martyr, and whose 
licence to preach was signed by King 
Edward the Sixth, his owne hand, had a 
presentation directed to the Deane and 
Chapter of Yorke, and the Keeper of the 
Spiritualityes there, (the Archbishopricke of 



80 hollingwokth's history 

Yorke and Bishoprique of Chester being 
then both vacant) that hee should bee 
Warden and Keeper of the Colledge in the 
in the roome of Laurence Vauxj but 
whether hee was admitted and installed into 
the said wardenship, I know not ; for very 
shortly after Thomas Herle was admitted 
warden, Laurence Vaux fled out of Eng- 
land into Ireland, where hee fell among 
theeves, which robbed him, and slew many 
of his fellow-travellers j but himself escaped 
to Lovaine, and was a monke of the order 
of St. Dyonise, hee writ a booke de 
Ceremonus Ecclesise * * * * 
(N.B. About a line of the Manuscript is 
illegible), and became schoolemaster of the 
English . schoole there. Hee writ allso an 
English Catechisme, or summe of Christian 
doctrine necessary for children and ignorant 
people, which was then a boulcl attempt. 
The French King and some Popish Doc- 
tors did approove it, others did dislike it. 
Hee was a man well beloved and highly 



OF MANCHESTER. 81 

honored by many in Manchester; yea, by 
the generality, and this was one reason 
why many thereabouts were lother to bee 
reclaymed from Popery then about Ratch- 
dale; especially because Thomas Herle, a 
selfish man, succeeded him, who, if he was 
indeed a Protestant, (having allway changed 
with the princes in those changeable times) 
was not so wise or zealous in his generation 
as Vaux was in his ; and hee would for ever 
have blemished the name of Herle in these 
parts, notwithstanding his honorable des- 
cent, had not Charles Herle, his kinsman, 
Rector of Winwick, a learned, ingenious, 
pious, and laborious minister and moderator 
(after the death of Reverend Dr. Twisse,) 
of the Assembly of Divines, at Westmin- 
ster, by ordinance of parliament recouered 
the credit thereof. This Thomas Herle 
and his fellowes-chaplaines, viz., Stephen 
Townesend, Nicolas Daniel, Richard Hall, 
Edward Holt, possessed the colledge lands 
and revenues, made long leases of the 



82 hollingworth's history 

tythes, and some of the lands, whereby the 
colledge was much prejudiced and impouer- 
ished, though in the judgement of learned 
lawyers. The Colledge being an Ecclesi- 
astical society, newly restored since the 
death of King Edward, was suppressed by 
the Act of first Elizabeth, and conse- 
quently, the said Thomas Herle and those 
that ioined with him were not legally 
warden and fellowes. 

Anno 1565. There was a sore sick- 
nesse in Manchester and about it, of which 
very many died. 

There was allso an act of parliament 
concerning the Aulnegers' fees, and that 
hee should have deputies within the seueral 
townes of Manchester, Boulton, Blackburne, 
Bury. 

Injunctions and orders concerning the 
Colledge church of Manchester, were given 



OF MANCHESTER. 83 

to the Master or Warden ; and the rest, 
some by the Archbishop of Yorke, and 
other the Queene Majesties commissioners, 
for causes ecclesiastical, within the province 
of Yorke, anno 1573, about residence of 
the warden and fellowes, diligent and con- 
stant preaching every Sunday in the church 
of Manchester, or in one of the chappells of 
Stretford, Chorlton, Diddesbury, Gorton, 
D enton, Newton, and Blakeley. 

Anno 1574. The common of Coly- 
hurst was inclosed, and allso the same was 
put downe in the night, the same summer 
William West, Baron of Grissley, Lord de 
la Warre, and Gateloupe, cheefe Lord of 
Manchester, and did let Colihurst to all 
such as would take the same for iiijs. the 
aker by yeares, and twenty shillings fine 
aforekand. 

Anno 1577. Crosford, or Crosfery 
bridge was begunne to be taken care of that 



84 hollingworth's history 

it might bee reedifyed and built of stone. 
The inhabitants of Manchester petitioned 
the Queen's most Honorable Councell, and 
thereuppon, Ralph Sadler, chauncelor of 
the Dutchy of Lancaster, Mr. Justice 
Meade, Mr. Gilbert Gerrard, Attumey 
Generall, and Mr. Bromley, Attumey of 
the Dutchy of Lancaster, wrote to the 
Justices of Peace in Lancashire, to view 
and cause the same to be reedifyed; and 
they assessed the county in the summe of 
two hundred pounds, and the inhabitants of 
the towne of Manchester did, of their owne 
benevolence, bestowe fourty pounds ouer 
and above, so that the bridge was builded 
in that manner that now it is. The yeare 
following, 

Anno 1578, there was a difference 
betweene the lord and the towne about 
choice of the Burrough-reeve : the steward 
chose John Gee, but the towne chose 
Robert Langley. 



OF MANCHESTER, 85 

This yeare allso, the churchwardens 
taxed the parish in allmost the sum of nine 
pounds for destroying of Crowes. Ahout 
this time, the Bishop of Chester erected, 
and his successors encouraged a publicke 
exercise to bee held at Manchester, the 
second Thursday in every month, and 
nominated some grave, godly, learned 
ministers to bee moderators, and to preach 
in then courses in the afternoone; and 
commanded all parsons, vicars, curates, 
readers, schoolemasters, within the Deanery 
of Manchester, to bee present at the sayd 
exercise, and to bee ready in the afternoone 
to bee more privately conferred with, exam- 
ined, instructed, and directed by the sayd 
nominated moderators; and to obey and 
observe their orders and directions vppon 
paine of censure. The names of the mo- 
derators were Mr. Shaw, of Bury; Mr. 
Carter, of Manchester ; Mr. Assheton, of 
Midleton ; Mr. Williamson, of Manchester; 
Mr. Langley, of Prestwick. 



86 hollingworth's history 

Anno 1578. Queen Elizabeth vnder- 1 
standing that the Colledge had either an 
vncertaine foundation, or none at all, did 
refound or reestablish it by the name of 
Christ's Colledge, in Manchester, founded 
by Queene Elizabeth, of one warden, a 
presbyter, and at the least, Batchelor in 
Divinity, and foure fellowes, godly, honest, 
and learned men, at least Batchelors in 
Arts, able to teach the people. Shee 
ordeined allso, that there should bee twoo 
chaplaines, foure singing men, foure choris- 
ters, skilfull in musick. By which founda- 
tion, Thomas Herle, having allready done 
too much harm, was outed ; onely hee had 
a pension of twenty pounds per annum, 
and John Wulton, B. D. was made warden 
in his stead : hee was a pious, painfull, 
skilfull divine ; he continued scarce two 
yeares in his wardenship, and then hee was 
made Bishop of Exeter, where he sate 
allmost fourteen yeares : hee lyeth buried on 
the southside of the Presbytery, neere the 



of Manchester. 87 

place where there is a monument of free- 
stone erected to the memory of him. 

The fellowes nominated in the sayd 
foundation, were, John Mullins, who being 
an exile in Queene Maries dayes, was first 
a student of Zurich, and afterward a noted 
member of the English church of Frank- 
ford ; Alexander Nowel, an exile allso, and 
one of the sayd English church, and being 
returned, was made fellow of the sayd 
colledge, and afterwards Deane of St. 
Paul's London ; hee writt many solid and 
learned treatises, was a bountifull benefac- 
tor to Brasen-nose Colledge, founder and 
endower of Midleton Schoole, and for thirty 
yeares together hee preached the first and 
last sermons in Lent, before Queen Eliza- 
beth ; the third was Oliver Carter, a learned 
man, who writt a booke in answer to 
Bristowe's motives : hee preached solidly, 
but succinctly ; hee fell sicke in the pulpit 
as hee was preaching of God's prouiding a 



88 HOLLINGWORTHS HISTORY 

succession of godly ministers, on Matt, 
28 verse; and Mr. William Burne (of 
whom more hereafter) went vp immediately 
into the pulpit, and God assisting him, 
preached on the same text — a visible and 
present proofe of Mr. Carter's doctrine. 
This Mr. Carter's sonnes did walk in the 
godly wayes of their father, and one of them 
was preferred to a Bishoprique in Ireland ; 
the fourth was Thomas Williamson, after- 
wards D.D. 

Anno 1579. In their times, Henry 
Earle of Derby; Henry, Earle of Hunting- 
ton ; William, Lord Bishop of Chester, and 
other her Majesties High Commissioners, 
being assembled at Manchester, gave forth 
good orders and injunctions against pipers 
and minstrells playing, making and fre- 
quenting; also bearebayting and bullbayt- 
ing on the sabbath dayes, or vppon any 
other dayes in time of divine service or 
sermons ; allso against superfluous and su- 



OF MANCHESTER. 89 

perstitious ringing; wakes and common 
feasts, continuing in alehouses, drunken- 
nesse, &c. William Chadderton, a parish- 
ioner borne, D.D., Master of Queene's 
Colledge, and Regius Professor of Divinity 
in Cambridge, tooke the Wardenship of 
Manchester in commendam : hee was also 
Bishop of Chester; a' learned man, and 
liberal, given to hospitality, and a more 
frequent preacher and baptizer then 
other bishops of his time ; hee was resident 
in Manchester till the dayly j airings be- 
tweene his attendants and some inhabitants 
of the towne, occasioned, probably, by pride 
and stiffenesse on one or both parts, occa- 
sioned him to remoue his habitation to 
Chester. Hee was afterward preferred to 
the Bishoprique of Lincolne, where hee 
died. 

In his "time the Lord Treasurer Bur- 
leigh and Secretary Walsingham made 
choice of the Earle of Derby, Sir Richard 
h3 



90 hollingworth's history 

Sherburne, Sir John RadclifFe, Sir Edward 
Fitton, Knights, with advice of the sayd 
bishop, to procure an augmentation of the 
revenues of the colledge from such as had 
large leases, but their endevours had no 
Sood successe. 

Anno 1585. The English Benedictins 
beyond the sea's began to bestirre them- 
selues for continuation of their order, Abbot 
Fecknam being dead, and there being but 
one left j viz., Father Sigebert Buckley, 
and therefore, before his death, provision 
was made of others to succeede. Nine 
were chosen : five in Valladolid, in Spaine, 
and foure in Rome; of which foure, one 
Father Anselme, of Manchester, was one. 
Fuller Eccles. Hist, out of Reinerius, Apost. 
Benedict., p. 180. 

Anno 1586, there was a greate dearth 
in this country, insomuch that in Man- 
chester, a peny white loafe weighed but six 



OF MANCHESTER. 91 

or eight ounces, one peny boulted bread ten 
or eleven ounces, ryebread ten ounces, 
browne bread, about foureteene ounces ; and 
the Bishop of Chester and others pitying 
the condicion of the poore, did order that 
the r peny white bread should weigh nine 
ounces of troy weight 5 boulted bread, ten ; 
browne bread, fifteene ; jannocke, thirteene ; 
oate cake, fifteene ounces. That euery 
baker haue his marke, according to the 
statute ; that their bread bee wholesome and 
wel baked ; that they sell but onely twelve 
to the dozen ; that no loaves bee made, but 
either of jd., ijd., or iiijd., at the farthest; 
that these orders bee duely observed, both 
by inhabitants and forreiners. 

Anno 1588, there died of the parishion- 
ers, in one moneth of AprUl, neere seuenty 
persons. 

The same yeare there was a pannick 
feare vppon the Lord Bishop, then Warden, 



92 hollingworth's history 

and the other inhabitants of the towne, that 
they caused the flesh shambles to bee 
remooued to Salford bridge, and betooke 
themselues to such armes as they had, vppon 
some flying report (if there were so much 
as a report) that a potent army was within 
a few miles of the towne, vppon Swinton 
moore. Sometimes the wisdome of the 
wisest men is but starke folly, there being 
then but litle probability, either that there 
was any such army so neere, except, 
possibly, of the Lancashire Papists, or that 
such an army could by these meanes be 
resisted. 

1 589. Robert Asmal, of Gorton, slaine 
with a bull at a stake. 

Campion, the Jesuite sayth, that one 
James Laborne, a noble layman for the 
profession of the Catholique faith, and allso 
because hee denyed the female papacy of 
Queene Elizabeth, and denyed obedience to 



OF MANCHESTER. 93 

bee due to her, because shee was, sayth the 
Jesuite, both vnlawfully begotten, and law- 
fully deposed from her pretended right, by 
Pope Pius Quintus, did most meekely and 
willingly shed his bloud in Manchester. 
Probably hee meanes Lancaster, though, 
indeede, hee and other prisoners were car- 
ried to Lancaster at the townes charge, and 
after their execution, their heads were 
brought to Manchester, and sett vppon the 
steeple anno 1585. Allso that one James 
Bell priest, was prisoner in Manchester, 
sometimes in an obscure and horrid lake, 
(hee meanes, for ought I can learne, a 
gentleman's house, in or neere to the Mar- 
ketstedlane, called Mr. Radcliffe's of the 
Poole), sometimes in another place called 
the Newe Fleete, of which one Worsley, of 
the Boothes, was governor or keeper. Also 
that one Donna Alana, widdow of the brother 
of Cardinal Allen, who was borne in this 
county, was, by Sir Edmund Traiford, of 
TrafFord, troubled very much; hee com- 



94 hollingworth's history 

plaines of the sayd Sir Edmund Tr afford as 
a most bitter enemy of the Catholickes of 
Assheton : of Chadderton, as a zealous 
heretick — of Holland, of Denton, as a rigid 
Puritan — of the Bishop, as a Calvinist, a 
false and cruel Bishop — of the inhabitants, 
and specially of the ministers, and by name 
of Oliver Carter, as one that boasted much 
of his learning, and labored to winne them. 
This is certaine that because Lancaster and 
most other places in the county were in- 
clined to popery, the Queene and her coun- 
cel appointed Manchester to bee the place 
wherein to imprison and confine such 
papists as they thought meete, and to traine 
vp their children in the Protestant religion, 
whether, because of the residence of the* 
Bishop there, to whom some children borne 
of popish parents, as the Worthingtons 
were comitted, or because of the zeal, or 
supposed zeale for the reformed religion, 
which then was in the gentry, ministry. 



OF MANCHESTER. 95 

and people, or for some other reason I have 
not to say. 

Anno 1592. Richard, son of Robert 
Birch, died, being fourescore yeares yonger 
then his father. 

Anno 1592, was borne in Manchester, 
William, the son of Simon Malloone, a 
yong man of pregnant witt; hee was 
tempted by some Irish merchants (with 
whom the towne then and long after till the 
Rebellion broke out, anno 1649, did driue 
a greate and a gainefull trade) to goe 
beyond sea, seduced from the reformed to 
the Romish religion, of which hee became 
one of the most earnest and able assertors ; 
hee made the reply to Archbishop Vssher's 
answer to the Jesuites' challenge, but hee 
was ouermatched, his adversarie being more 
eminently learned, and having evidence of 
truth on his syde. Malloune caused his 
reply to bee dispersed in Manchester ; hee 



96 hollingworth's history 

afterward went to Rome, and was Master 
of the Irish Colledge there, Dr. Hoyle 
rejoined to his reply. 

Anno 1594, the sicknesse was in Fay- 
lesworth, at Clough-house, 

Anno 1595. John Dee, Doctor of 
Physick, having a grant from the Queene 
of the Chauncelorship of St. Paul's, 
London, and that not falling voide, hee 
was offered and did accept of the Warden- 
ship of Manchester Colledge, and had it by 
patent, vnder the greate seale, and was 
installed Feb. 20, 1596: a very learned 
man, and perfect maister of mathematical 
studies; many arts enumerated in his 
preface to Euclide's Elements, were, by him 
wholly invented, by name, definition, pro- 
priety, and use, more then either the 
Grecian or Roman mathematicians have 
left to our knowledge, with diuers annota- 
tions and inventions mathematical, added 



OF MANCHESTER, 97 

in sundry places of the sayd booke , 
together with seuerall pieces of Navigation, 
Perspective, and other rare mathematical 
workes of his in MS. His epistle to John 
Feelds, Ephemerides, anno 1557, de vsu 
globi ccelestis, and de nubium sohs lunae et 
reliquorum planetarum, &c. distantiis, both 
dedicated to Edward the Sixth. Astrono- 
mical and logistical canons to calculate the 
Ephemerides by his tract, de stella admi- 
randum, in Cassiopea Asterismo. An 
advice and discourse about the Reformation 
of the Vulgar Yeare, speake him a learned 
astronomer. Bookes in other kinds of 
learning, as History, Heraldry, &c. Avere 
writ by him before the yeare 1583. Hee 
was a Master of diuers secrets in vulgar 
Chymistry; amongst others, he reuealed to 
one Roger Cooke, the greate secret of the 
Elixir, as hee called it, of the salt of 
mettalls, the projection whereof was one 
vppon an hundred. It is reported, that 
hee and Sir Edward Kelley, cannon of 



98 hollingworth's history 

Bridlington, his intimate friend and long 
companion, did find a very large quantity 
of the Elixir in some part of the ruines of 
Glastenbury Abbey, which was so incredibly 
rich in virtue, being one vppon 272,330, 
that they lost much in making projection by 
way of tryall, before they found out the true 
height of the medicine — a piece of a warm- 
ing-pan, without Sir Edward Kelley's 
touching it, or melting the mettall, onely 
warming it in the fire, the Elixir being put 
theron, transmuted it into pure gould, 
which, together with the warming-pan, was 
sent to Queen Elizabeth by the Lord 
Willowby, that by fitting the piece to the 
place, it might exactly appeare to have bin 
part of that warming-pan. Hee was gene- 
rally, by the common people and by some 
others, reputed a conjurer, and thereby was 
forced often, seriously and fervently, to 
apologize for himselfe : hee was often dis- 
quieted in his studies ; hee was glad to goe 
beyond sea's, and his library was seised on 



OF MANCHESTER. Q9 

in which were 4,000 bookes, and 700 of 
them MSS. ; but the Queen writ letters to 
him, wherevppon hee returned from Fre- 
bona, 1589, and was fauorably received by 
the Queen, at Richmond : sometimes shee 
sent him 100 markes, or 200 angells to 
keepe Christmas with. Hee writt allso, 
three hundred astrological aphorismes, (some 
aphorisms hee dedicated to Gerrard Merca- 
tor, a famous man), one hundred and 
twenty aphorismes, de perstantioribus qui- 
busdam naturae virtutibus, Monas Hiero- 
glyphics speculum vnitatis, being an 
apology for Frier Bacon ; Cabulae Hebraicce 
Compendiosa Tabula, and other pieces 
Doubtlesse, as hee was a man, as Mr. 
Selden calls him, doctrinam mutijugi, so 
hee was too much addicted to some ouer 
curious and vncertaine arts, as astrology or 
the like. Yet it is writt of him, that when 
seuen persons in Lancashire were beleeued 
to bee possessed by evill spirits, (one of 
which was Margaret Byrom, of Salford, 



,<1 



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and sixe others at Clu worth), the sayd Dr. 
Dee absolutely refused, by any vnlawfull 
way, to assay to cast them out, and advised 
to procure some godly ministers to seeke to 
God, by prayer and fasting ; himselfe joined 

with Mr. S to procure some ministers 

out of Northamptonshire to joine with others 
in this county: hee straitly examined and 
sharpely rebuked one Hartley, a conjurer, 
for his vnlawfull art; hee was very sober, 
just, temperate in his carriage, studious, 
yea, an observer of publicke and private 
devotions, yet my author, w r hom I follow in 
this relation, sayth, that hee had the unhap- 
pinesse to bee much vexed with the turbu- 
lent fellowes of that colledge. 

John White, D.D. and Vicar of Eccles, 
was made fellow of the Colledge ; a learned 
and laborious preacher, and assertor of the 
reformed religion : hee writt diuers treatises, 
as the way to the true church, &c, which 
being excepted against by some popish 



OF MAN* CHESTER 101 

priests, were vindicated by his eminent and 
learned brother, Dr. Francis White, Bishop 
of Ely. 

About this time florished Sir Nicolas 
Moseley, anno 1600, Lord Maior of 
London, whom, from a small and low 
estate, God raysed up to riches and honor. 
Hee bought the Lordships of the manor of 
Manchester, and of the Hough, and built 
the house called the Hough-end in the 
place where his father's tenement stood, 
which, with other large estate, he left to 
Rowland, his eldest son ; his second sonne, 
Edward, was a counselor, Knight and 
Attumey of the Dutchy, both whose estates 
descended on Edward Moseley, Baronet. 

Allso, Lawrence Chadderton, D.D., 
who, when hee went first to Cambridge, 
was a papist, but was (God being mercifull 
to him) converted both in to the pathes of 
truth and holinesse : then his father sent 
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102 hollingworth's history 

him a poke to goe a begging with, and a 
groate in it, telling him that vnlesse hee 
did returne, it should bee the last money 
hee should receive from him. But God 
raysed him vp friends in Cambridge, and 
hee grew in yeares, grace, and knowledge, 
and allso in vniuersity degrees, (saue that 
Mr. Buttler, that eminent physitian, hin- 
dred for a time, his degree of doctorship, 
because hee was a puritan) and, indeed, 
hee was one of them that held the confer- 
ence with the Bishops at Hampton-court, 
in behalfe of the Nonconformists in the 
beginning of King James, his reigne, but 
at the coming of the Paulsgrave to Cam- 
bridge, hee tooke the degree of Doctor. 
Allso Sir Walter Mildmay, chauncelor of 
the Exchequer, founder of Emanuel Col- 
ledge, made him the first master of it, who, 
when hee was growne ould, did willingly 
resigne vp the maistersliip to which the 
fellowes elected John Preston, Fellow of 
Queene's Colledge, afterwards D.D. and 



OF MANCHESTER. J 03 

Chaplaine in ordinary to his Majesty e ; but 
liee retired to a priuate life, and died full of 
dayes and honor, seeing the death of two of 
his successors, viz., Dr. Preston and Dr. 
Sancroft, and his funerall sermon was 
preached by the third, viz. Dr. Holdsworth. 

There were High Sheriffes pricked out 
of this parish by the Queene: Edmund 
Trafford, anno 7; Edward Holland, anno 
8; Edmund Trafford, 13 ; JohnBiron, 14; 
Richard Holland, 15; Edmund Trafford, 
anno 22 Elizabeth. 

The afore mentioned William Bume, a 
Staffordshire man, B.D. of St. John's Col- 
ledge, in Cambridge, who was sent downe 
hither by Dr. Chadderton and Whitakers, 
at the request of the parishioners, who 
desired that either Mr. Perkins or some 
other pious and learned minister might bee 
sent hither, was made fellow ; hee was 
learned in the tongues, sound and ortho- 



104 HOLL1NG WORTH'S HISTORY 

cloxe in his judgment, zealous against 
every error, especially against papistry ; 
seldome or neuer did reascend the pulpit, 
but hee strucke at some popish doctrine or 
practise before he came downe; hee dis- 
sented litle or nothing from the discipline 
vsed in Scotland, but uehemently propugn- 
ed it, yet in a private, prudent, and 
peaceable way, saue that hee held the 
feasts of the Nativity of Jesus Christ, of his 
Circumcision, &c., and other holidayes 
might, yea, ought (the lawes of the realme 
considered) to bee duly kept; hee was 
much in ordinary and extraordinary duties 
of piety, prayer, fasting, thanksgiving, &c, 
both in his owne house and elsewhere. 
Hee vsually (if not every night) did pray 
in his bed, and sing psalmes allso when 
hee awaked, when it might bee without 
disturbance of those that lay in the chamber 
with him. His opinion, and suitable there- 
unto was the practise of his family, was, 
that the Lord's day beginnes on Saturday 



OF MANCHESTER. 105 

at sunsett. Hee was a frequent preacher ; 
hee was the first that in a constant course 
sett vp sermons on the Lord's day in the 
afternoone, or on Munday morning: his 
preaching was plaine, yet profitable to the 
conversion and edification of many soules, 
and the reformation of the towne from 
seuerall abuses, as prophanation of the 
sabbath : hee seldome varied the words of 
his prayer before sermon, and as seldome 
the method of his preaching, which after 
explication of his text was, doctrine, proofe 
of it by scripture by reason, answering one 
or more objections, and then the vses : — 
1. Of information. 2. Of confutation of 
popery in this or that. 3. Reprehension. 
4. Examination. 5. Exhortation. And 
lastly, consolation. His credit and esteeme 
amongst the people hereabouts, was such, 
that ipse dixit was sufficient ; this is Mr. 
Bourne's judgement. Hee labored much, 
and succeeded well in it, to procure minis- 
ters to euery chappell in the parish ; few 



106 HOLLING WORTH'S HISTORY 

ministers were receiued, but such as were 
approoued by him, Mr. Gee, Mr. Paget, 
Mr. Rathband, and the like, which often 
mett in a kind of consultatiue classis; hee 
was a prudent manager of his worldly 
affaires, of a comely and reuerend counte- 
nance, quick in speech and pace. Hee was 
buiied with much honor, and two sermons 
at his funerall, in which the substance of all 
these things were spoken by the ministers, 
Mr. Thomas Johnson, then of Illingbrooke, 
and since rector of Stopford, and Mr. Alex- 
ander Horrockes, pastor of the church of 
God, at Deane. 

Anno 1605. The Lord visited the 
towne, as forty yeares before and forty 
yeares after, with a sore pestilence ; there 
died about one thousand persons, amongst 
which was Mr. Kirke, chaplaine of the 
colledge, and his wife and foure children. 
All the time of the sicknesse, Mr. Burne 
preached — in the towne so long as hee 



OF MANCHESTER. J 07 

durst, by reason of the vnrulinesse of 
infected persons, and want of government, 
and then hee went and preached in a feeld, 
neere to Shooters brooke, the townespeople 
being on one syde him, and the countrey 
people on another. 

Now allso liued in good esteeme, 
Thomas Cogan, High Master of the Free 
Schoole, Professor of Physicke, and the 
author of the booke calculated for the 
meridian of Lancashire, especially of Man- 
chester, called the Hauen of Health. And 
Walter Balcanquel, B.D. was made fellow; 
hee was since Doctor of Divinity, Deane of 
Rochester, and one of the foure English 
Divines that were sent to the synod of 
Dort. 

After the death of Dr. Dee, the sayd 
William Bourne being as was sayd, an 
approoued divine, and having allso married 
a kinswoman of the Cecylls, Lords Burgley 



10g hollingworth's history 

was ill a faire likelyhood of being warden, 
and had a grant for it, but hee was hindred, 
partly by his nonconformity, (onely a lease 
of tythes for three lives of about thirty 
pounds per annum was given him), and 
partly by the potency of some Scottish 
lords at court, which got the wardenship 
for Richard Murrey, D.D., who was like- 
wise Parson of Stockport, Deane of St. 
Buriens, in Cornewall, and had some civill 
honors descending to him by inheritance 
from his Scottish ancestors — one of honor- 
able descent, competently learned, zealous 
for the dignity of his place as warden, but 
not laudable otherwayes. Hee seldome 
preached — onely twise in Manchester — once 
in Gen. i. 1.; In the beginning, &c. 
Another time in Rev. xxii. 20. ; Come 
Lord Jesus, &c. So it was sayd that hee 
in preaching begunne and ended the bible, 
nor was hee verry skillfull in it. Preach- 
ing once before King James vppon Rom. i. 
1.6. ; I am not ashamed of the gospell of 



OF MANCHESTER. 109 

Christ. When hee came to kisse the 
King's hand, his Majesty sayd, Thou art 
not ashamed of the gospell of Christ, but by 

, the gospell of Christ may bee 

ashamed of thee ! Hee was a greate Plu- 
ralist, and yet was a mighty hunter of other 
Ecclesiasticail dignityes and benefices. 
Hee was very iealous of being poysoned by 
his servants, if they were discontented at 
him : hee make them tast before hee would 
eate or drinke. When hee was abroad, 
hee liued very obscurely, lodging rarely in 
the best innes, or two journeyes together in 
the same inne ; but, at Manchester hee 
liued in greater state, accounted himselfe 
(as indeed by his place hee was) the best 
man in the parish. Hee required the 
fellowes, chaplaines, singing men, choris- 
ters to goe before him to church, and some 
gentlemen followed after : hee demaunded 
his seate from the Bishop of Chester when 
hee was sett in it, saying, My Lord, that 
seate belongs to the warden \ and because 



1X0 hollingworth's history 

hee would not sitt below the bishop, hee 

remootted in to the body of the church, and 

in the aftemoone hee came timely enough 

to take his owne [seate, and so the bishop 

was forced to seeke another seate. In his 

time the Quire part of the church grew very 

ruinous, the revennues of the Colledge were 

leased out by his meanes. Hee purposely 

abstained from taking the oath mencioned 

in the Queene's letters patents, concerning 

his not receiuing of the Colledge revenues, 

saue for the dayes in which hee did resyde. 

The fellowships and other places were 

either not furnished with men, or the men 

with meanes, herevppon many and grieuous 

complaints were made by the parishioners 

against him to King Charles, who comitted 

the whole matter to William, Archbishop of 

Canterbury, Thomas Lord Coventry, of 

Alsbrough, Lord Keeper of the Greate 

Seale 5 Henry, Earle of Manchester, Lord 

Keeper of the Privy Seale, that they might 

inquire further into the matter. Afterward 



OF MANCHESTER.' \\\ 

hee coniitted it to the examination of Co- 
inissioners, in causes ecclesiastical, which 
after mature deliberation and examination, 
proceeding in due forme of law, and having 
summoned the saycl Richard Murrey, per- 
sonally to answer for himselfe, did not onely 
remooue the sayd warden from his place, 
but pronounced him to have bin no warden 
from the first, and that the colledge had 
either a weake foundation or none at all. 

Anno 1617, was the faire and large 
galery in the church built, which wee 
comonly call the Loft, at the charges of 
some private men, especially of Humfrey 
Booth, of Salford, Gentleman; and the 
veare after, seates were leased out to Sir 
Edmund Trafford, Knight; Humfrey Da- 
uenport, of Salford, Esq. ; Oswald Mosley, 
of the Ancoates, Esq., and others, that were 
benefactors during the terme of their 
natural! Hues respectively. 



122 HOLLING WORTH'S HISTORY 

Anno 1616, was an extraordinary 
greate fioud, called from the day Lambard's 
flood, in which the waters suddenly rose 
— yards plumme aboue the ordinary course, 
that men \ tood vppon Salford-bridge, 1 and 
laded vp water with a litle piggin. It is an 
easy matter with God to drowne a towne, 
yea, a world. 

Edward Ridlestone, borne in Manches- 
ter, was vice principall of Brasen-nose 
Colledge ; a very pious man, much 
honored by the whole vniuersity, whose 
preaching was with such life and power, 
and in such evidences and demonstration of 
the spirit, that his hearers were ordinarily 
struck with feare and reverence, if not with 
terror. To whom I will ioin another 
neighbor, John Smith, M.A., President, or 
Vice-Master of Magdalen Colledge, in 
Cambridge, and once Senior Proctor of the 
University : a provident man, and a prudent 
gouemor of the colledge — a lover of his 



OF MANCHESTER. H3 

countrymen, a bountifull benefactor to the 
colledge — founding new fellowships and 
scholarships ; and shortly after his death, 
John Haworth, B.D., a Manchester man 
allso, succeeded him, one eminently learned, 
and to whom the writer hereof (once his 
pupill) is much indebted. 

Those within the parish of Manchester, 
which were honored with the title of High- 
SherifFe of the county by King James, 
were, Edmund TrafFord, Knight; Rowland 
Mosely, Esq. ; Edmund TrafFord, Esq. ; 
Edward Holland, Esq. 

Manchester gaue honor to, and re- 
ceiued honor from, Henry Mountayne, who 
being before Baron Kimbolton and Vis- 
count Maundevile, and Lord President of 
His Majesties Privy Councel, was created 
Earle of Manchester, Feb. 7, 1625 : hee 
was afterward Lord Privy Seale. 



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114 hollingworth's history 

Anno 1631. The Lord sent his de- 
stroying angell into an inne in Manchester, 
on which died Richard Meriot and his wife, 
the master and dame of the house, and all 
that were in it, or went into it, for certaine 
weekes together, till, at the last, they 
burned or buried all the goods in the house; 
and yet, God in midst of judgement did re- 
member mercy, for no person else was that 
yeare touched with the infection. 

About this time, there was a difference 
in opinion betweene Mr. William Bourne 
and Mr. Richard Johnson, two Fellowes of 
the Colleclge, about the Nature of Sin : 
whether it bee meerely privative, or haue 
any positivenesse in it. Mr. Burne main- 
teined the later, and Mr* Johnson the 
former, which was so publikely taken 
notice of, that a popish priest tooke vppon 
him to determine the controuersy in writing ; 
and to inveigh against them both, and all 
Protestants, because of their divisions; 



OF MANCHESTER, J 15 

whereas this very controuersy was first 
hatched among the Papists, and it and 
others of farre greater importance are still 
amongst them. The priest's writing was 
examined by R. H . 

Anno 1632. Daniel Baker, M.A. 
Rector of Assheton, on Mercy -banke, and 
Fellow of the Colledge,, having, on Good 
Friday (as it is called) administered the 
Lord's Supper, and being, as it is feared, 
somewhat overcharged with drinke, in Sal- 
ford, was found dead in the morning in the 
water vnder Salforcl-bridge : whether hee 
fell downe of himselfe, being a tall man, 
and the battlements then but low, or 
whether hee was cast downe and put ouer 
the bridge, it is not certainly knowne to 
this day. This death of his, as allso Dr. 
Butts, the Vice-Chancelor of Cambridge, 
hanging himselfe on Easter day after, and 
some other ministers and eminent profes- 
sors coming that yeare to an untimely end, 



XJg HOLLING WORTH'S HISTORY 

as allso the above-mentioned difference be- 
tweene the ministers, seemed to the Papists, 
especially to those that were then newly 
revoulted to them, as Sir Cecyl Trafford, of 
Trafford, Knight, and Francis Downes, of 
Worldley, Esq., and others — signal evi- 
dences of God's anger and wrath, and 
presages of the mine of the reformed 
religion. 

Anno 1633. On New-Yeare's-Day, 
the Mosse being of a greate breadth, and 
foure or five yards deepe, rose up out of his 
place, and trauelled towards the house of 
James Knowles, and environed it about, 
carried a large stone trough before it, and 
boar downe trees that stood in the way, but 
being afterward somewhat broken with a 
row of trees before the sayd James Knowles 1 
house, it filled the brookes and raters, slew 
the fish, blackend the water, made some 
fruitful land barren. 



OP MANCHESTER. \\J 

Anno 1634. Humfrey Booth, of Sal- 
ford, laid the foundation of Trinity chappeil, 
in Salford, and of his owne cost (save that 
about two hundred pounds was giuen by 
seuerall persons : — Sir Alexander Rad- 
clifle, of Oardsall, twenty pounds; Henry 
Wigley, twenty pounds; Robert Pendle- 
ton, twenty or forty pounds ; Charles Ha- 
worth, ten pounds ; John Hartley, twelve 
pounds ; John Gaskell, five pounds ; George 
Scholes, ten pounds; Ralph Bayley, five 
pounds; and others lesser suinmes;) did 
finish it, and endow it with twenty pounds 
lands per annum : the sayd Humfrey Booth, 
being, by God's blessing on his trading, 
made rich, gaue allso to the poore of 
Salford, the first lands that he bought 
to the value of twenty pounds per annum, 
and payd it duely all his life time. Hee 
being in greate weakenesse, earnestly de- 
sired that hee might Hue to see the chappeil 
finished, which hee did, but immediately 
after the solemne dedication of it, by the 



Ug HOLLING WORTH'S HISTORY 

Bishop of Chester, hee more apparently 
weakened, then hee earnestly begged that 
he might partake of the Lord's supper 
there, and then hee would not wish to 
Hue longer. It pleased God to revive him 
in such a measure, as that hee was able 
to goe to the chappel constantly till hee was 
partaker of the supper (which could not bee 
done of some moneths after the consecra- 
tion,) in the chappell, and was neuer able 
to goe forth after, nor scarce to get home. 
Hee was a man just in his trading, gene- 
rous in entertainment of any gentlemen of 
quality that came to the towne, though 
meere strangers to him, bountifull to the 
church and poore, faithfull to his friend, 
and we hope, God gaue him both repent- 
ance for, and remission of his sinns, in the 
blood of Jesus. King Charles, in the 
eleventh yeare of his reigne, refounded the 
Colledge by the name of Christ's Colledge, 
in Manchester, and appointed Richard 
Heyrick, warden ; William Bourne, Samuel 



OF MANCHESTER. \\Q 

Bordnian, Richard Johnson, and Peter 
Shaw, fellowes. In this foundation (to 
omitt lesser alterations) the warden's power 
is lesse then formerly, and the power of the 
fellowes greater, the priuiledges of the 
tenants as well as the power of the colledge 
straitned, in that leases could bee made 
onely for twenty-one yeares, not for three 
Hues as formerly. This kindled a sparke, 
which, afterward, with blowing, became a 
greate flame, and was a meanes to blow vp 
the colledge. But, in the interim, the 
warden and fellowes denyed themselves, 
and caused the fines of the tenants (many 
of whom were then out of lease) to bee 
bestowed on the roofe of the Quire, and the 
two syde Isles, which then were taken 
downe and built vp againe, battled and 
pinnacled in a seemely, yea, a stately 
manner. Anno 1638. 

Anno 1639. The Sir Cecyl Trafford, 
of TrafFord, Edmund Assheton, of Chatter- 



120 hollingworth's history 

ton, Esq., and others, out of zeale to his 
Majesties seruice, and suspecting that sun- 
dry in the towne did much fauor the Scots, 
did charge the towne of Manchester with 
more armes then ever before in the memory 
of man it had bin charged with; which 
warre being composed, they had their arms 
in their owne possession. 1 

The inhabitants and others of the towne 
were, by his Majesties Deputy Lieutenants, 
allowed to trayne and exercise themselues 
in feates of armes. 

When his Majesty had left the Parlia- 
ment, the Warden of Manchester, John 
Bradshaw, of Bradshaw, Esq., and very 
many gentlemen and others of the towne 
and country resorted to Yorke to petition 
his Majesty to returne to his parliament, 
which petition was crossed, by a suggestion 
at the court, that that petition was not the 
petition of the county, but of a party, and 



OF MANCHESTER. J21 

that there would come shortly up another 
petition. 

1642. The siege of the towne by the 
Earle of Derby. 

1642. At Midsumer, the Earle of 
Derbyes coming into Manchester, and 
hauing a banquet made him. 

1643. The towne was fortified, and 
strongly garrisond. 

The first Prouincial Assembly was at 
Preston, November 14, 1648. Mr. Hyel 
was moderator ; Mr. Gee, scribe, as hee 
hath since continued. 

The second at Preston; Mr. Herle, 
moderator. 

The county Lancaster was, by autho- 
rity of Parliament, made a Prouince, and 



122 hollingworth's history 

divided into nine classes. The first was 
called Manchester classis ; the second, 
Boultons. 

Diners ministers and others named for 
Tryers — as Richard Heyrick, John Angier, 
Richard Hollinworth, John Harrison, &c. ; 
Robert Hyde, Robert Assheton, Thomas 
Strangewayes, Esq. Enquire of Mr. 
Heyrick. 

In July 1648. There was a sudden 
and terrible raine on the Lord's day, which 
in twoo homes space filled the sellers in the 
Market-place, Hanging-ditch, and there 
channells ran downe the streetes like greate 
riuers, in some places able to beare a large 
vessell. 

Hamilton's coming in. 

1649. The Independents sett vp a 
meeting in the Colledge, November 5th. 



OF MANCHESTER. 123 

The Chapterhouse door and the Colledge 
chest were broke open, and the Colledge 
deedes were seised on by some souldiers, 
and sent vp to London. 

Feb. 26, 1649. There was seene by 
hundreds of people in the Market-place and 
Church-yard, three parelii, about ten of the 
clock before noone, which vanished away 
one after another, so that at eleuen of the 
clocke none were to bee seene. I saw two 
of them myselfe. 

1650. The ministers and others in the 
towne and parish being assembled to fast 
and pray, for preuenting of a new warre : 
the towne and country being generally non- 
engagers were disarmed by the gouernor of 
Liuerpoole. 

Jn Blakeley, neere Manchester, in one 
John Pendleton's ground, as one was 
reaping, the corne being cut, seemed to 



124 HOLLING WORTH'S HISTORY 

bleede ; drops fell out of it like to bloud : 
multitudes of people went to see it, and the 
strawes thereof, though of a kindly colour 
without, were within reddish, and as it were, 
bloudy. 

1651. The disturbance by Mr. Flood. 
(See the Diurnall). 

The King of Scots passing through this 
county. 

The Earle of Derbyes routing at 
Wigan, by Col. Lilbume. 

Captain Bexwicke pulling in pieces the 

Proclamation against C. S 1 as it was 

in proclayming. 

1652. The towne dismantelled — the 
walls throwne downe — the gates sould or 
carried away. 



OF MANCHESTER. 125 

Sept. 11, 1656. Mr. Richard Heyrick 
was prisoner at London; and Mr. Herle, 
Mr. Johnson, Mr. Angier, Mr. Hollinworth, 
Mr. Harrison, Mr. Gee, Mr. Latham, Mr. 
Taylor, Mr. Meeke. 



BARLOW, de BARLOW, Esq. 

BIRCH, de BIRCHES, Esq. 

BAGULEY, of BROUGHTON. 

SA. BIRCH, of ARDWICK. 

BECK, of MANCHESTER. 

ROBERT BOOTHE, de SALFORD, Esq. 

BYROM, de SALFORD, Gent. 

THOMAS CHEETHAM, de NUTHURST, Esq. 

HUMFREY CHETHAM, de CLAYTON, Esq., 
Founder of the Hospital. 

JOHN HARTLEY, de STRANGWAYES, Esq. 

HOUGH, of MOSTON, Gent. 

HAWARTH, of MANCHESTER, Esq. 

HOLLAND, de DENTON, Esq. 

WILLIAM HULME, of MANCHESTER, Gent. 

HYDE, de DENTON, Esq. 

HOLBROOKE, of MANCHESTER. 

JENKINSON, of NUTHURST, Gent. 

GILLIAM, of NEWTON. 

JOHN LIGHTBOUNE, of SALFORD, Esq. 

M 



126 hoixingworth's history ^Jte3«X 

S'/ 

EDWARD MOSELEY, de HOUGH, Baronet, 
Lord of Manchester. 

NICOLAS MOSELEY, de ANCOATES, Esq. 

MOSELEY, de COLYHURST, Gent. 

EDWARD PENDLETON, of MANCHESTER, 

Gent. 

ADAM PILKINGTON, of SALFORD, Gent. 
PRESTWICH, de HULME, Esq. 

ALEXANDER RADCLIFFE, of RADCLIFFE, 

Knight of the Bath. 

RICHARD RACLIFEE, of MANCHESTER, 

Esq. 

SHACKLOCK, of MOSTON, Gent. 
STRANGEWAYES, of GORTON, Esq. 
SYDDAL, of SLADE, Gent. 
STANLEY, of BROUGHTON, Esq. 
CECYLL TRAFFORD, of TRAFFORD, Knt. 
WORSLEY, of RUSHULME. 

In this abrupt manner ends the Original MS., 
the author evidently leaving it unfinished ; and, as 
he died within two months from the last date given 
in the MS., it is certain he had little opportunity 
of making a more finished conclusion. 



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